Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 15:19:53 -0300 From: Alejandro Pulver <alejandro@varnet.biz> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVidia GeForce 6600 problems Message-ID: <20060201151953.2ef2f011@phobos.mars.bsd> In-Reply-To: <20060201150621.11234c17@phobos.mars.bsd> References: <20060201150621.11234c17@phobos.mars.bsd>
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On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 15:06:21 -0300 Alejandro Pulver <alejandro@varnet.biz> wrote: > Hello, > > I have recently bought a GeForce 6600 video card, and sometimes (not > very often) I experience the following problem: > > A little after starting X11 (for example when I start downloading > e-mails), the screen freezes a few seconds, after that the screen > looks like if widgets (buttons, text, etc.) aren't drawn, and the > white background of Sylpheed-Claws covers the screen. Then I am > forced to switch to the 1st console (Ctrl+Alt+F1), which takes around > 30 seconds, and then kill X11. > > I have FreeBSD 5.4 release, Xorg 6.8.2 and nvidia-driver 1.0.8178. > > I know this problem is with the driver, because I got this kernel > message: > > NVRM: Xid: 8, Channel 00000000 > NVRM: Xid: 8, Channel 00000020 > > And the Xorg log has the following: > > (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e75c, 0) > (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e75c, 0) > Failed to switch consoles (Invalid argument) > (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e834, 0) > (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e834, 0) > (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 4, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e844, 0) > (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 4, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e844, 0) > (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e878, 0) > (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e878, 0) > (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e89c, 0) > (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e89c, 0) > (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e8ac, 0) > (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e8ac, 0) > FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2, > should be 1; fixing. > > If more information is needed just ask (and please tell me how to > obtain it). > > What can I do? Should I update FreeBSD/Xorg? > > Thanks and Best Regards, > Ale I forgot to post the kernel module output when detecting the device: nvidia0: <GeForce 6600> mem 0xcd000000-0xcdffffff,0xb0000000-0xbfffffff,0xce000000-0xceffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
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