Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:40:34 -0500 From: Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@tcbug.org> To: Shaun Friedle <shaun@insipidity.co.uk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GeForce FX 5800 Ultra with Nvidia Drivers on 5.2 Message-ID: <20040413184034.GC43303@ns1.tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <1081878637.767.45.camel@Shaun> References: <1081865042.4879.28.camel@Shaun> <20040413161337.GA48630@omniresources.com> <1081878637.767.45.camel@Shaun>
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On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 06:50:38PM +0100, Shaun Friedle wrote: > On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 17:14, Doug Poland wrote: > I built a custom kernel but can't tell you if that was required as I did that > > before disabling ACPI. > > Well, if I disable SMP, I seem to be going in the right direction as > the machine no longer locks up. Ditto here. > > > Unfortunately, I cannot disable ACPI on this ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe board > > as the kernel dumps on errors 9 every time. Haven't tried that yet. > > Well, I'm obviously very unlucky since I have an Asus P4C800 Deluxe and get the > same thing! The message is: > > Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while in kernel mode > instruction pointer = 0x58: 0x2d5c > stack pointer = 0x10: 0xf80 > frame pointer = 0x10: 0x0 > code segment = base 0xc00f000, limit 0xffff, type 0x1b > = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 0, gran 0 > processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 > current process = 0 (swapper) > trap number = 0 > panic: general protection fault > > > > So for me, ACPI was the key. If I could just get this bloody ASUS board > > to boot without ACPI I think I'd be in business. > > I think you're right. After searching on Google for a while (as I am sure you have done) > I have found no solution. > > > Good luck to you and I'd appreciate any info you have if successful. > > I don't think I'm going to be able to solve this. Hopefully it will be fixed soon, apparently > the problem is "5.x has grown a regression in its handling of BIOS32 calls somehow". I found > that in this thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-March/023392.html > > > Shaun Friedle > shaun@insipidity.co.uk My issue is that SMP + Nvidia Drivers + GF4 ti 4200 + 5.2.1-RELEASE, 4.10-RELEASE or -STABLE or CURRENT hangs the system. I've mailed the -questions mailing list once, and found someone with the exact same issue that I am having, but I suspect it's arcane enough that no one is going to try to fix it. For now running the nv driver is acceptable. Josh Paetzelhome | help
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