From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 9 09:21:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 208E616A4B3 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:21:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ack.Berkeley.EDU (ack.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.206.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A31043FE3 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:21:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mhunter@ack.Berkeley.EDU) Received: (from mhunter@localhost) by ack.Berkeley.EDU (8.11.3/8.11.3) id h99GLGd12082; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:21:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:21:16 -0700 From: Mike Hunter To: Justin Smith Message-ID: <20031009162116.GA10621@ack.Berkeley.EDU> References: <1065629500.864.3.camel@localhost> <20031008195304.D26654@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> <1065696044.725.2.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1065696044.725.2.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Andre Guibert de Bruet Subject: Re: Nvidia driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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, 09 Oct 2003 16:21:26 -0000 On Oct 09, "Justin Smith" wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 19:53, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Justin Smith wrote: > > > If you hook up a serial console, are there any messages that get printed > > out? > > Unfortunately, I have no way of doing this on the machine that has the > nvidia card. > > I think the "random" crashes are actually the result of running screen > savers that use OpenGL. The random crashes always happen when I leave > the machine alone for a while. When I come back to it, it has rebooted. I've also had bad experiences running xlock -mode random +fullrandom ...one of them didn't end up locking the screen, and left X in a semi-crashed state, but did not cause a reboot for me. There's a bunch of stuff in the nvidia-driver documentation about linux compat issues regarding multi-threading and openGL, IIRC. So it seems like the main reason to run the nvidia binary driver, openGL, is suspect. Which leaves us with "seeing the nvidia splash-spam" as our only reason for running it, along with driving external monitors on Dell D800's :) Mike