Re: Hang with nvidia-driver

From: Matthew Seaman <matthew_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 19:45:12 +0100
On 13/08/2013 19:37, Alex wrote:
> Hi. I just upgraded to revision 254271 and am experiencing a hang when slim
> starts. The monitor goes blank (no signal) and the fans increase in speed,
> suggesting high CPU usage. I have a GeForce GT 440. As suggested on the
> forums, I tried setting "machdep.disable_mtrrs=1" at the boot loader, but
> this did not help.
> 
> Does anyone have any advice?

I saw the same symptoms with a recent update to x11/nvidia-driver.

Are you starting slim from /etc/ttys ?  What fixed it for me was to
scrap that and use the rc.d script to start slim.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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