Re: X becomes unresponsive with nvidia / xscreensaver and desktop panics

From: Roman Divacky <rdivacky_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 10:42:02 +0100
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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