From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 4 2:32:10 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 8417E37B401 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 02:32:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (pcwin002.win.tue.nl [131.155.71.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8064A43EA9 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 02:32:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gB4AW8LR000284; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 11:32:08 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: (from stijn@localhost) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gB4AW7iP000283; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 11:32:07 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 11:32:07 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop To: Tarquin McDowell Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: stability & nvidia drivers? Message-ID: <20021204103207.GA213@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <20021204084739.GA66523@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20021204100611.A25453@phear.darq.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021204100611.A25453@phear.darq.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Bright-Idea: Let's abolish HTML mail! 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 --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:06:11AM +0000, Tarquin McDowell wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 09:47:39AM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: > > Anyone getting any better results? Is there something I can do to fix > > this? The drivers are of no use to me if they are this unreliable. > > More info available on request, of course. >=20 > I had a problem on my Gforcce 2MX400 where the first GL app I ran would b= e ok, > but running any GL apps after that would cause a core dump (and sometimes= a > hard lock of the machine). A problem I noticed, though, was that > sysctl -a | grep nv was showing a selected AGP rate of x4. I was able to > change that value to x1 by making a change as documented on the Nvidia > FreeBSD FAQ page: >=20 > "Try lowering your AGP rate in the BIOS or nvidia_os_registry.c. If you w= ant > to use nvidia_os_registry.c to do this, find the line that reads=20 > { "ReqAGPRate", "Force AGP Rate", 4, 0 }, and change the last 0 to 1. Now= you > will be able to set the sysctl hw.nvidia.registry.ReqAGPRate to the value= of > the desired AGP rate. You will of course need to rebuild/reinstall/reload= the > kernel driver before attempting to set the sysctl." >=20 > This fixed all my problems -- the driver seems to be very stable now. Yes, that's it! Thanks for the pointer, this solved all the coredumps! a happy --Stijn --=20 Q: Why is Batman better than Bill Gates? A: Batman was able to beat the Penguin. --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE97dmnY3r/tLQmfWcRAvajAKCTQ/KVav6DNOoerL4jicn1QQEVDwCfayaq vPUkQk/S1AzUMVv9RtcbO/c= =6jM3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message