On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Roman Divacky <rdivacky_at_freebsd.org> wrote: >> 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... Mine doesn't happen boot -- it happens with the screensaver. Interestingly enough though, it happens less when I use a single screensaver instead of 2 separate screensavers. I'm going to put it back to 2 separate random screensavers and see what happens... -GarrettReceived on Fri Jan 09 2009 - 12:18:32 UTC
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