Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:46:58 +0100 From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> To: Patrick Lamaiziere <patfbsd@davenulle.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Graphic card that works? Message-ID: <BANLkTinZEUQDMcKyc%2BUpE%2BsKYMM9n--MZg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110630132455.13304880@mr12941> References: <20110623221305.43b74d53@davenulle.org> <4E0AEA54.1080806@bally-wulff.de> <4E0C016E.1040909@comcast.net> <201106300523.41240.akirchhoff135014@gmail.com> <BANLkTi=HoAoEeNx8BBR9EEdDSEXjnSaH4Q@mail.gmail.com> <4E0C5142.2020903@comcast.net> <20110630132455.13304880@mr12941>
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On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Patrick Lamaiziere <patfbsd@davenulle.org> wrote: > Le Thu, 30 Jun 2011 06:34:42 -0400, > Adam K Kirchhoff <akirchhoff135014@comcast.net> a =C3=A9crit : > >> > Personally, I'd like to hear more about the OP's issues with his >> > current nvidia card, what it doesn't work on and why, and try to >> > resolve that instead. > > 8.2-STABLE/i386 > > The problem is random locks and a very reproductible freeze when > watching a video (with Mplayer by example) via the Xvideo extension of > X. For xvideo, a work-around is to disabled it in Xorg (so it will be > not used). Yes I've tried to disable the composite extension. > > I haven't found any solution for random locks (one or two per day). > The composite extension shouldn't affect xvideo. It will affect vdpau, which is what I recommend you try to use with mplayer - its supported by your card. Something like this in ~/.mplayer/config: vo=3Dvdpau,xv vc=3Dffh264vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffmpeg12vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau, Interestingly, I have had the same scenario as happened to the guy in the thread you linked to - device fails, and on a warm reboot it fails to appear on the PCI bus (it came back after a cold power up). I took it as a sign of hardware failure, replaced it with a new one of the same model, and it didn't happen again. Have a try with vdpau and see how that goes. You will need to enable it (cd /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer; make config ; make clean all deinstall reinstall clean). Do you also have windows/another OS available to stress test the card to make sure it is still functioning correctly? Might be useful. Cheers Tom
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