From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 10 11:21:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEE6C16A41C for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 11:21:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au) Received: from smtp.ade.swiftdsl.com.au (smtp.ade.swiftdsl.com.au [218.214.228.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28ED043D45 for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 11:21:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au) Received: (qmail 27651 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2005 11:21:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO daemon.foo.lan) (218.214.176.70) by smtp.ade.swiftdsl.com.au with SMTP; 10 Jul 2005 11:21:58 -0000 From: Ian Moore To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 20:51:40 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <1120686579.2782.4.camel@klamath.syndrom23.de> <42CCF88B.60504@dial.pipex.com> <1120993478.93711.6.camel@klamath.syndrom23.de> In-Reply-To: <1120993478.93711.6.camel@klamath.syndrom23.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1395616.qIPWnoLySq"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200507102051.52829.no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 13:06:29 +0000 Cc: Andreas Kohn , mikef@ack.berkeley.edu, Alex Zbyslaw Subject: Re: FreeBSD locks up when X-windows running (LONG) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 11:21:58 -0000 --nextPart1395616.qIPWnoLySq Content-Type: text/plain; charset="cp 850" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 10 July 2005 20:34, Andreas Kohn wrote: > I'm using the nvidia-provided drivers because of the speed increase they > give. nv works fine, yes...but too slow :) > > I spent some time reading through the posts, and yes, there were some > very interesting things said there. Thanks for the pointer. > For some reason, my system now works with 7667. No hangs, no NVRM > messages. > The only things I changed: > - a lot of reinstalling 6113/7667, perhaps somewhere there was a > corrupted file that now got mysteriously replaced by a correct > version? > - playing with modelines. I changed the resolution from 1920x1200 to > 1600x1000, to gain a higher refresh rate. Before, I also saw > NVRM: Xid: 17, Head=3D0 X=3D1920 Y=3D1200 Refresh=3D75 > which I regarded as simple information items from nvidia-driver. I > don't get these messages with 1600x1000 anymore. > > So whatever it was, it looks gone. Unfortunately, I can't give any tips > on what to try :/ > I don't know if this is relevant to your problem, but whenever I update X, = I=20 have to portupgrade -f my nvidia driver because it causes X to crash whenev= er=20 any opengl apps are run (eg glxgears, opengl screen savers). If you had updated part of X recently, it may have been the source of your= =20 problem. Cheers, =2D-=20 Ian gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc --nextPart1395616.qIPWnoLySq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBC0QTQPUlnmbKkJ6ARApL3AJ9mMQbQ6VqHNOfsgAAquN7A8483KACgooVE PB3fT8qEchbWmsYZpZTOydA= =hB7K -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1395616.qIPWnoLySq--