On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 01:39:04AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Jan 8, 2009, at 12:36 AM, Roman Divacky wrote: > > >On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 11:49:26PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > >>Hello folks, > >> As many probably know, I recently installed FreeBSD 8-CURRENT on > >>my desktop. > >> One of the things I'm noting is that when I use dual displays with > >>the nvidia driver, and xscreensaver kicks in and keeps going for a > >>period of time, the machine's X.org console eats up a core, and > >>when I > >>try and do anything like gdb Xorg, the system hangs, attempts to > >>panic > >>(I assume that's the case because I hear it beep and attempt to > >>restart), then I have to give it a warm boot. truss(1)'ing Xorg > >>showed > >>that there were a lot of SIGALARM's being fired and masked. > >> This is incredibly reminiscent of the days when I used to > >>run Linux and > >> I forgot to configure my dump device (doh), but this problem appears > >>to be easily reproducible with my environment. I'm fixing that issue > >>right now, so I should have a working crashdump soon... > >> Just wondering if anyone else has seen this issue, or if it's just > >>me > >>once again. > >>Thanks, > > > >the nvidia driver keeps my 8-current crashing/deadlocking when > >playing video > >quite often (once a week?). I have no idea what it causes. > > > >the code of the driver seems to be done in 5.x times. I believe it > >needs > >some rehashing as it might not get the semantics of "things" in 8.x > >right > > > Hey Roman! > Yeah, I'm fine with it being slow, for a little while, as long as > it's functional... I do realize that nvidia is still giant locked I didnt mean it being Giant locked. it's just that some semantic might have changed since 5.x and the driver does not reflect that > (ew..), so it might be some nasty resource contention. > Are you using Linux emulation support with the driver? no....Received on Thu Jan 08 2009 - 08:42:23 UTC
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