From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 8 09:34:36 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12319106566B; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:34:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: from mxout2.cac.washington.edu (mxout2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC6B18FC0C; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:34:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.7] (may be forged)) by mxout2.cac.washington.edu (8.14.3+UW08.09/8.14.3+UW08.11) with ESMTP id n089YZha005806 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 8 Jan 2009 01:34:35 -0800 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.10.7] (adsl-99-133-163-225.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net [99.133.163.225]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.14.3+UW08.09/8.14.3+UW08.11) with ESMTP id n089YY97030565 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Thu, 8 Jan 2009 01:34:34 -0800 Message-Id: <1A86A687-DA2D-4866-8825-8BBF021F6937@gmail.com> From: Garrett Cooper To: Roman Divacky In-Reply-To: <20090108083645.GA56613@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 01:39:04 -0800 References: <7d6fde3d0901072349i50d04d2ch34f308388c9fd414@mail.gmail.com> <20090108083645.GA56613@freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) X-PMX-Version: 5.5.0.356843, Antispam-Engine: 2.6.1.350677, Antispam-Data: 2009.1.8.91633 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=8%, Report='FORGED_FROM_GMAIL 0.1, BODY_SIZE_1700_1799 0, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS 0, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ 0, __CP_MEDIA_BODY 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __FRAUD_419_WEBMAIL 0, __FRAUD_419_WEBMAIL_FROM 0, __FROM_GMAIL 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: X becomes unresponsive with nvidia / xscreensaver and desktop panics X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:34:37 -0000 On Jan 8, 2009, at 12:36 AM, Roman Divacky wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 11:49:26PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> Hello folks, >> As many probably know, I recently installed FreeBSD 8-CURRENT on >> my desktop. >> One of the things I'm noting is that when I use dual displays with >> the nvidia driver, and xscreensaver kicks in and keeps going for a >> period of time, the machine's X.org console eats up a core, and >> when I >> try and do anything like gdb Xorg, the system hangs, attempts to >> panic >> (I assume that's the case because I hear it beep and attempt to >> restart), then I have to give it a warm boot. truss(1)'ing Xorg >> showed >> that there were a lot of SIGALARM's being fired and masked. >> This is incredibly reminiscent of the days when I used to >> run Linux and >> I forgot to configure my dump device (doh), but this problem appears >> to be easily reproducible with my environment. I'm fixing that issue >> right now, so I should have a working crashdump soon... >> Just wondering if anyone else has seen this issue, or if it's just >> me >> once again. >> Thanks, > > the nvidia driver keeps my 8-current crashing/deadlocking when > playing video > quite often (once a week?). I have no idea what it causes. > > the code of the driver seems to be done in 5.x times. I believe it > needs > some rehashing as it might not get the semantics of "things" in 8.x > right Hey Roman! Yeah, I'm fine with it being slow, for a little while, as long as it's functional... I do realize that nvidia is still giant locked (ew..), so it might be some nasty resource contention. Are you using Linux emulation support with the driver? Cheers, -Garrett