Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:05:23 -0500 From: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, nealie@kobudo.homeunix.net Subject: Re: NVIDIA 6600GT Freeze Message-ID: <200607201605.23862.josh@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <1153396289.823.16.camel@server.home> References: <1153396289.823.16.camel@server.home>
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On Thursday 20 July 2006 06:51, Nealie wrote: > I have a problem with my system freezing when using an NVIDIA video > card using the nvidia-driver port. All seems to work fine for a > while but then the system freezes and won't even reply to a ping. > This can happen regardless of whether I use openGL or not. > > Everything works fine using the "nv" driver, so it doesn't seem to > be a hardware problem. > > My setup is as follows: > > uname: FreeBSD server.home 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Wed > Jul 19 11:19:16 CEST 2006 > root@server.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SERVER i386 > > AGP NVIDIA 6600GT installed on an MSI K8T Neo-F V2.09 motherboard > (VIA K8T800 Pro chipset) with an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ CPU. > > The NVIDIA driver is installed as per the instructions, with agp > and dri removed from the kernel in order to use the NVIDIA agp > interface, even though the sysctl settings suggest otherwise. > > If anyone has any ideas about this problem I'd be very grateful. > This probably isn't very helpful but I have nearly the exact same setup and it works fine. The only differences I see is that I'm running 6.1-RELEASE and my motherboard is an asus based on the K8T800 chipset. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel
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