From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 18 05:48:24 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5316A16A408 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 05:48:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from slvhwke@optusnet.com.au) Received: from mail06.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail06.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D18C413C4B5 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 05:48:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from slvhwke@optusnet.com.au) Received: from daisy (c210-49-242-174.ipswc1.qld.optusnet.com.au [210.49.242.174]) by mail06.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id l6I5mGdr014905; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:48:21 +1000 From: "Gemma Fletcher" To: "Free BSD" , "mark" Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:48:22 +1000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <469D964B.70906@giovannetti.ca> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 Importance: Normal Cc: Subject: RE: KDE 3.5 Crashing 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: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 05:48:24 -0000 Gemma Fletcher wrote: >> I apologize in advance if this advice is too rudimentary. >=20 > Rudimentry is good :) I am a BSD noob :D >=20 >> Sounds more like hardware. You did not say how you tested your = memory. If > you >> did not use Memtest86, get and run that. Also run fsck manually. >=20 > I used Memtest and I have had already run fsck since my poor hard = drive was > compaining bitterly of so many cold restarts. There were some errors = that > were cleaned up - and it seems a bit more stable hours before freezing> >=20 Mark wrote: [snip] I've had many freezes with FreeBSD 6.2 and nvidia cards on at least 3 separate systems. The thing that has fixed it on every system has been to use portdowngrade to reset the nvidia driver to: nvidia-driver-1.0.8776 (possibly with an extra _4 in the portdowngrade list) Hope this helps. Awesome - will def try it. I ended up pulling my card out and just = running the onboard - which works - but annoys me endlessly. Thanks for the help! :)