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Date:      Wed, 25 Dec 2002 16:51:16 -0700
From:      "Cliff L. Biffle" <cbiffle@safety.net>
To:        David Holm <david@realityrift.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: yet another nvidia post
Message-ID:  <200212251651.16258.cbiffle@safety.net>
In-Reply-To: <200212251454.48551.david@realityrift.com>
References:  <200212251454.48551.david@realityrift.com>

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On Wednesday 25 December 2002 06:54 am, David Holm wrote:
> I have the nvidia drivers up and running on my current box and 2d-wise they
> seem to be working great. But whenever I activate glx I can run glxgears
> two times and it runs accelerated (I even got a higher framerate than in
> linux), but the third time I ran it it ran for about 5s then the computer
> froze. 5-10s later it just reboots. This has happened every time I tried it
> (the last two or three times I updated world, I update approximately after
> 1-2 weeks).

I've managed to reproduce a very similar situation using RC1.

Does your kernel have various debugging features in place?  If so...try 
turning them /off/.  I kid you not.  On the RC1 box here the nVidia drivers 
were very unstable doing 3D until the kernel was recompiled without 
debugging.  (Chris, the owner of the machine, wanted to do it for 
'performance' reasons -- getting the graphics working was an unexpected 
boon.)

I can get you the kernel config, or make it available to the list if anyone's 
interested in this fleeting heisenbug.

-Cliff L. Biffle

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