Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 09:30:09 +0100 From: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: X becomes unresponsive with nvidia / xscreensaver and desktop panics Message-ID: <20090109083009.GA55615@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4966859E.7080301@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <7d6fde3d0901072349i50d04d2ch34f308388c9fd414@mail.gmail.com> <20090108083645.GA56613@freebsd.org> <1A86A687-DA2D-4866-8825-8BBF021F6937@gmail.com> <4966859E.7080301@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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> 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...
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