From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 8 09:42:23 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 64708106566C for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:42:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rdivacky@vlk.vlakno.cz) Received: from vlakno.cz (77-93-215-190.static.masterinter.net [77.93.215.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CCFB8FC1F for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:42:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rdivacky@vlk.vlakno.cz) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vlakno.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D89D9CB159; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 10:42:14 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at vlakno.cz Received: from vlakno.cz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (lev.vlakno.cz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id QQbxIht-8UOa; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 10:42:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from vlk.vlakno.cz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vlakno.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83FC19CB22D; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 10:42:02 +0100 (CET) Received: (from rdivacky@localhost) by vlk.vlakno.cz (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id n089g2wx083963; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 10:42:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rdivacky) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 10:42:02 +0100 From: Roman Divacky To: Garrett Cooper Message-ID: <20090108094202.GA83183@freebsd.org> References: <7d6fde3d0901072349i50d04d2ch34f308388c9fd414@mail.gmail.com> <20090108083645.GA56613@freebsd.org> <1A86A687-DA2D-4866-8825-8BBF021F6937@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1A86A687-DA2D-4866-8825-8BBF021F6937@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i 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 09:42:23 -0000 On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 01:39:04AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > 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 I didnt mean it being Giant locked. it's just that some semantic might have changed since 5.x and the driver does not reflect that > (ew..), so it might be some nasty resource contention. > Are you using Linux emulation support with the driver? no....