From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 4 13:53:29 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A95491065679 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 13:53:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rflynn@acsalaska.net) Received: from mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 752BB8FC1C for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 13:53:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (squeeze.lan.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.30]) by mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01B087E858 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 05:53:27 -0800 (AKDT) Message-ID: <4FCCBDD6.5020800@acsalaska.net> Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 15:53:26 +0200 From: Mel Flynn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org 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> <4FCC69CD.7010109@mthelicon.com> In-Reply-To: <4FCC69CD.7010109@mthelicon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 13:53:29 -0000 On 4-6-2012 9:54, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote: > 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? That would account for what I'm seeing too and I know I've compiled nvidia-driver with clang. Except in my case it's Xfce4 and no panics, but completely unusable (fonts were too large, offsets calculated wrongly, terminal emulation was like opening something in vi with TERM=dumb, mouse movement shocked, machine under constant load). -- Mel