> 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...Received on Fri Jan 09 2009 - 07:30:23 UTC
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