Re: Nvidia issue with CURRENT

From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 17:51:01 +1000
On Monday, 23 April 2018 at  9:00:33 +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2018 14:38:55 +0200
> Mariusz Zaborski <oshogbo_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Normally I build my CURRENT by myself from Xorg - r332861.
>> But I also tried latest SNAPSHOT.
>
> All my boxes running with nVidia hardware running most recent CURRENT (compiled
> this morning on an almost daily basis) and I'm using the lates official driver
> available from nVidia, 390.48.
>
> It happens to be as a natural byproduct of CURRENT that very often
> the kernel module of the nVidia driver is out of sync so i made it a
> habit to recompile the module from sources whenever I
> recompile/install a kernel.

As I commented, I've had this on -STABLE as well.

My guess is that this is GPU dependent.  I'm using an old card:

[    32.251] Current Operating System: FreeBSD teevee.lemis.com 11.1-STABLE FreeBSD 11.1-STABLE #2 r327971: Mon Jan 15 1
0:55:53 AEDT 2018     grog_at_teevee.lemis.com:/home/obj/eureka/home/src/FreeBSD/svn/stable/11/sys/GENERIC amd64
...
[    32.763] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver  390.25  Wed Jan 24 19:00:20 PST 2018
...
[    33.785] (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce GT 710 (GK208) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)
[    33.785] (--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 2097152 kBytes
[    33.785] (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 80.28.b8.00.45
[    33.785] (II) NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 8X

> In /etc/src.conf , therefore you should add something similar to (like I added
> to mine):
>
> PORTS_MODULES=
> PORTS_MODULES+=                         x11/nvidia-driver
> PORTS_MODULES+=                         emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod
>
> This is one of the great advantages of having an operating system which you can
> compile yourself.

Yes, but this has nothing to do with the bug.  Clearly Marisuz and I
have the configuration correct, but something has changed in the last
few months.

Marisuz, as I commented, your log wasn't appended to the message I
received.  What is your hardware?

Greg
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