From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 4 1:51:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AF4637B401 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 01:51:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.nsu.ru (mx.nsu.ru [193.124.215.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6705843ECF for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 01:51:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru) Received: from drweb by mail.nsu.ru with drweb-scanned (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18JWBP-00086F-00; Wed, 04 Dec 2002 15:51:07 +0600 Received: from iclub.nsu.ru ([193.124.215.97] ident=root) by mail.nsu.ru with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18JWBO-00083u-00; Wed, 04 Dec 2002 15:51:06 +0600 Received: from iclub.nsu.ru (fjoe@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by iclub.nsu.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gB49oQQJ080449; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 15:50:26 +0600 (NS) (envelope-from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru) Received: (from fjoe@localhost) by iclub.nsu.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gB49oQN7080448; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 15:50:26 +0600 (NS) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 15:50:25 +0600 From: Max Khon To: James Pole Cc: Stijn Hoop , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: stability & nvidia drivers? Message-ID: <20021204155025.A80269@iclub.nsu.ru> References: <20021204084739.GA66523@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <1038993730.30598.9.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <1038993730.30598.9.camel@localhost>; from james.pole@paradise.net.nz on Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:22:10PM +1300 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01, USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.43 X-Envelope-To: james.pole@paradise.net.nz, stijn@win.tue.nl, stable@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, there! On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:22:10PM +1300, James Pole wrote: > Using a TNT2 card, things are more stable than yours -- it actually > works reasonably well. But I still have a few problems. > > Once in a while, the driver seems to do weird things and thus my monitor > goes weird and everything goes crazy. It's hard to describe, but it > looks like the monitor can't handle the data coming from the video card > so it stuffs up the image and eventually it goes in power-saving mode to > protect itself from blowing up. This happens with either the NVIDIA > driver or the FreeBSD AGP GART driver. > > It can be solved simply by pressing any key and everything goes back to ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > normal. looks like problems with screensaver. have you tried to switch it off? /fjoe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message