From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 10 2: 7:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0421037B401 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 02:07:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from speechpro.com (crt-gw.infopro.spb.su [195.201.254.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6960D43EB2 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 02:07:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from igorr@speechpro.com) Received: from igorr by sysadm.stc with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18LhIk-0006ZF-00 for FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 13:07:42 +0300 Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 13:07:42 +0300 From: Igor Roboul To: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nVidia drivers revisited Message-ID: <20021210100742.GA25124@sysadm.stc> Reply-To: ir@hotbox.ru Mail-Followup-To: Igor Roboul , FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3DF2DDD1.2010603@melbpc.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:54:00PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > This just means the nvidia driver is buggy and could result in corrupted > data and kernel crashes eventually. However, the driver is only "buggy" > on 5.0 because 5.0 has different locking requirements than 4.x and the > driver was written for 4.x. Thus, it's not nvidia's fault per se, but > the driver does need updating before it will be safe on 5.x. I have no problems with nvidia driver. OpenGL apps (openuniverse) work good. No crashes, no panics. I don't load "dri" & "drm" XFree modules. Also I use nvidia driver's AGP support (not agp.ko). Kernel sources from end of November. No INVARIANTS. Intel i815 chipset. -- Igor Roboul, System administrator at Speech Technology Center http://www.speechpro.com http://www.speechpro.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message