Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:53:17 -0600 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: nvidia-driver-1.0.8776 was giving me READ_DMA timeouts Message-ID: <200611111453.23130.kirk@strauser.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] I upgraded my 6.1-STABLE box a week or so ago, and numerous ports at the same time. For the last week, I've had all sorts of random reboots on a normally rock solid system. Yesterday I noticed that whenever I was looking at a console, the machine was stable as usual, but when X was visible, the ATA drives would throw spurious READ_DMA timeouts. I downgraded from nvidia-driver-1.0.8776 to .8774 and the problems have completely disappeared and the system is back to normal. I know it sounds silly and I can't explain it, but the most recent NVidia drivers made my system feel as stable as Windows ME on an overclocked Cyrix. I'm posting this here mainly for the benefit of anyone else who might be having similar problems. -- Kirk Strauser [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFVjhD5sRg+Y0CpvERAgWkAJ0SEwYbYilX0eIroKUUUSe/FzCkvQCdHWNc 1PZHu/EfScVB+b90RvW+e/E= =Hb7u -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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