From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 4 08:20:31 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 867A81065675 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 08:20:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ken@mthelicon.com) Received: from hercules.mthelicon.com (hercules.mthelicon.com [66.90.118.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51B6C8FC15 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 08:20:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from feathers.peganest.com (176-227-140-205.ip.skylogicnet.com [176.227.140.205]) (authenticated bits=0) by hercules.mthelicon.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q547stbn091157 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 4 Jun 2012 07:55:02 GMT (envelope-from ken@mthelicon.com) Message-ID: <4FCC69CD.7010109@mthelicon.com> Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 08:54:53 +0100 From: Pegasus Mc Cleaft User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120602 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris References: <4FC25A5F.4020401@rawbw.com> <20120527170142.GD1509@albert.catwhisker.org> <4FC25ECC.2060400@rawbw.com> <201205272051.00016.lobo@bsd.com.br> <20120603191215.6590eec3@udns.ultimateDNS.NET> In-Reply-To: <20120603191215.6590eec3@udns.ultimateDNS.NET> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nvidia-driver-295.49 is highly unstable X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 08:20:31 -0000 On 06/04/12 03:12, Chris wrote: > On Sun, 27 May 2012 20:50:59 -0300 > Mario Lobo wrote: > >> On Sunday 27 May 2012 14:05:16 Yuri wrote: >>> On 05/27/2012 10:01, David Wolfskill wrote: >>>> So, at least in my case, I respectfully disagree with the >>>> assessment in the Subject. >>> i386 is one difference (I use amd64) >>> FX 770M is another difference (I use 9400GT) >>> I also have everything updated with the similar portmaster command. >>> >>> Yuri >> I use 8-STABLE amd64 with 295.40/9800GT and been using it since I can >> remember. Except for some quircks with early VirtualBox versions, I >> have NEVER had a problem with ANY version of the driver I've used. >> > FWIW > > uname -a > FreeBSD udns 8.3-STABLE FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE #2: Sun May 20 22:25:10 PDT 2012 > root@udns:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/AMD64 amd64 > > Xorg.0.log > NVIDIA GPU GeForce 7800 GT (G70) > PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 10de:0092:3842:c518 NVIDIA Corporation G70 [GeForce 7800 GT] rev 161 > NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 295.40 Thu Apr 5 21:27:46 PDT 2012 > > Has always worked w/o any issues -- ever. > > Hi Everyone, You know what it could be? I just had to rebuild my user-land because of KDE updates and I use variables in my make.conf to switch between base GCC and CLANG. I forgot to switch back to base gcc before compiling the nvidia driver. I installed the driver and rebooted, xorg came up but as soon as I logged in, kwin crashed, then the machine kernel panicked and rebooted. I rebooted and crashed a few more times before realizing what I had done. I recompiled the driver with GCC and the machine has been rock-stable with the nvidia driver. Maybe the OP has done the same thing and not realized it? Ta Peg