From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 9 13:18:32 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63602106566C; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 13:18:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD4808FC21; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 13:18:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 30so27319ugs.39 for ; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:18:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=abOLf/PSa1pe/oCcp8hfJEgXBijx+KirsslnKRthG0w=; b=ak5a+byls0Ji7urM9MjomhZP5nblXN65c2F56AWYJeu8+K9EKHZWOKEIuLyvvsrJcc ebKVNMNpK9k/kVmMs+YQmWouf6/JkvPQ71geqNwzTljtMeLRdFa7KFRAfxzupevMO9NM VXS9QZxNpIFDlMvlojkEDrxHk5gonEV5PE2MA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=CJ8+XSwC9RxHVXbEOvQFGmkRKC+jBjvEG9HhiDlABUXZDFNVW5I1BdKG9MlcCraFDj sV7O5XtqAduM3bpq/k2Ocob048P3/YaNpiLzs2YWALRPKE0FKh5Lne59NFWXxf1/eHEk 8ECJ8LgtiFIg3vJD4bKVyT4qctLIWU3n8iLG0= Received: by 10.66.248.5 with SMTP id v5mr4209154ugh.4.1231507110677; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:18:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.67.88.9 with HTTP; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:18:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0901090518m6e214a7pfe4d38249daf445e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 05:18:30 -0800 From: "Garrett Cooper" To: "Roman Divacky" In-Reply-To: <20090109083009.GA55615@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7d6fde3d0901072349i50d04d2ch34f308388c9fd414@mail.gmail.com> <20090108083645.GA56613@freebsd.org> <1A86A687-DA2D-4866-8825-8BBF021F6937@gmail.com> <4966859E.7080301@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20090109083009.GA55615@freebsd.org> Cc: "O. Hartmann" , FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: X becomes unresponsive with nvidia / xscreensaver and desktop panics X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:18:32 -0000 On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Roman Divacky wrote: >> I have and I had the same in FreeBSD 7.0/7.1 and now with 8.0-CUR with >> both a NV8600GTS and an older NV6800GT. A very old NV6600 never showed >> up these lockings when I used that PCIe-Card with FreeBSD 7.0/7.1, but >> I'm not sure. The locks came spontanous, sometimes after heavy usage of >> 'mplayer', but sometimes instantanously after the destop showed up. >> >> On those boxes, there is no Linux emulation and no Linux BLOB (useless, >> due to 64 Bit). I swapped the 'nv' driver on all FreeBSD boxes with >> 'vesa', because there is another issue with sprites/graphics buffers >> many times reported using FireFox. >> >> When the display got locked, sometimes I had the chance opening a ssh >> session killing Xorg/xdm and restarting working, but by the end, that >> was when changing towards 8.0-CUR, this 'trick' didn't work anymore. On >> FBSD 7, Xorg was eating up 100% CPU time. > > exactly my situation. I noticed that when the machine stucks while starting > X I am sometimes (~ 60%) able to ctrl-alt-backspace and it after some minutes > kills the X (= some sort of livelock?), after that I can 100% start the X > successfully... Mine doesn't happen boot -- it happens with the screensaver. Interestingly enough though, it happens less when I use a single screensaver instead of 2 separate screensavers. I'm going to put it back to 2 separate random screensavers and see what happens... -Garrett