From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 23 23:40:07 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42A231065675 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:40:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3CB08FC18 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:40:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwg5 with SMTP id 5so6252025qwg.13 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:40:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=MtJBXMZxcmkUZ+yMLNHFahEAKwYHadYOgchW74X0dJ0=; b=bRvmGEcxptOM0HZIbV9c4xVVy7XoQJyZaZgsuOHzVgJ9kSgbuygNfu94qoXhweSICI ZjRQNDhmYymm8fdufCLtnIBpqKY4hda0Fmr82rgW/3AgCnpAHxyybc4y+1bn1LtzYGIT 6oLMxBlafqDw+q6vbZGiv1o8ayP+nmYoMLqgc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=ahdsxTpIY/6MJwje3/MzU1am/rmvdhDsXsc9eZhnBl+4EnJTRMcOy0oIMEWhDk9K+o lz0iHxnLZUDKNGNPuklpgS5ofZYMj6vixUl6CPDoNF0AJe9A2RIPnsReBEpIeKpUvTmI GgyRt//5Y0v7I0Pu0Pw+3fTi6Yvv1noO3BKN0= Received: by 10.229.238.8 with SMTP id kq8mr1988444qcb.157.1282606805960; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:40:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from schism.local ([204.108.237.194]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t1sm7712583qcs.45.2010.08.23.16.40.04 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:40:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C7306D3.2070903@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:40:03 -0400 From: Glen Barber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rem P Roberti References: <4C72977B.9060104@comcast.net> <4C72B37D.2020504@comcast.net> <4C72B51C.8020901@gmail.com> <4C72B6EE.6050205@gmail.com> <4C72B8A3.2@comcast.net> <4C72E620.8070007@comcast.net> <4C72ED4D.9060909@comcast.net> <4C72F6DC.1040009@gmail.com> <4C72FDC0.5080308@comcast.net> <4C730535.8080707@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C730535.8080707@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Xorg Redux 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: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:40:07 -0000 On 8/23/10 7:33 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > In addition, it might be helpful to build debugging options into your > GENERIC kernel. If you're willing to go down this path, I'll help you > get set up, I should mention, though - I used to have issues with the nVidia driver putting my machine in an unusable state, similar to what you are describing. Though the more recent versions of that driver seem to have mostly fixed my issues, it still gives intermittent problems. As a result, I have since been using the Xorg nv driver. What made the problem worse is that I couldn't get any debugging information, no matter what debugging options I had built into the kernel. Just mentioning this in case you _are_ willing to do this. In my case, I wasn't able to grab anything useful. (By the way, does anything except 'minfree' exist in /var/crash ?) -- Glen Barber