Y'all will probably recall that I had a lot of problems with the nvidia-driver, and video generally (esp. flash) on i386 -current. Well I haven't had any problems recently because I haven't been using FreeBSD. :) But I have things I need to catch up on, so here's what I did: 1. Bought a new hard drive, and installed a snapshot of amd64 -current (this was actually done a while ago). 2. Yesterday I started configuring stuff, updated my source and ports trees, rebuilt the world, customized the kernel, etc. 3. With a newly up to date system I built the latest version of the nvidia-driver port, and started using it. My experience with it has been exactly the same as older versions of the port on previous versions of i386 -current. Sometimes it runs fine for a while, but when I exit the window manager (openbox) the system hangs and I never get back to the command prompt. (I'm using startx to try and minimize the number of variables.) Sometimes it will work fine for an hour, maybe two, then the whole thing just hangs. All the stuff is displayed on the screen, but the mouse won't move, I can't zap X, or even switch to the console. I have to power off. This is particularly frustrating because I haven't even loaded flash (or for that matter firefox) yet. Windows and linux (ubuntu, with the nvidia driver) work great on this same hardware, so I'm pretty thoroughly convinced that the problem is with freebsd/current somewhere. In addition to the -current partition I also installed amd64 8.1-RELEASE so I'll give that a go next, but I wanted to ask here first if anyone else was having problems on -current. Doug -- Breadth of IT experience, and | Nothin' ever doesn't change, depth of knowledge in the DNS. | but nothin' changes much. Yours for the right price. :) | -- OK Go http://SupersetSolutions.com/Received on Sun Oct 17 2010 - 20:55:37 UTC
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