Hi, all,
Just wondering if anyone has had any experiences (good or bad) with the new nvidia driver on CURRENT? So far I've found it to be pretty unstable... I tried reverting back to 5.1-RELEASE and recompiling the driver (i'm installing it from the port), but no luck.
On 5.1-RELEASE and old 5.1-CURRENT, I can use NVIDIA's AGP GART Driver until one or two weeks ago of 5.1-CURRENT, I am not able to use it any longer. It will lock my machine very hard, which only way I can do is turn the power off then boot into single to disable it. Current, I am stuck with FreeBSD's AGP GART driver (agp.ko) with Nvidia and it works great, but the perferomce descrease.
NVIDIA's AGP GART Driver = The glxgears will go over 3600 fps. FreeBSD's AGP GART driver = The glxgears will go over 2500 fps.
I really have no idea how I can debug, because it only will lock up the machine very hard.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]:5:0: class=0x030000 card=0x88911462 chip=0x028110de rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
device = 'GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP 8x [NV28]'
class = display
subclass = VGA
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Note: The problem is same on old and new of Nvidia driver, they both behave same.
Cheers, Mezz
It works fine in 2D mode, but running GL apps sometimes causes kernel panics. Running glxinfo and xvinfo repeatedly is a quick way to cause strange things to happen -- segmentation faults, bus errors, and kernel panics. The backtraces I've gotten are pretty worthless since the panic happens in a completely random place every time (to date, inside the VM, in ATA, USB, and a couple other places but almost never in the NVidia module itself). Smells like kernel memory corruption to me.
My setup is a PCI Geforce2 MX and a PCI TNT2. I'm using standard multi- head (NOT Xinerama). The port is compiled with WITH_FREEBSD_AGP, though it shouldn't make a difference. I do have an AGP Matrox card in the system, but disabling and/or removing it seems to make no difference.
The only thing slightly strange is that I had to put Options "UseInt10Module" "on" in XF86Config to soft-boot the TNT2. Otherwise it had a big solid-colored block covering approximately 1/3 of the screen...
Anyway, just curious if this is typical this driver on 5.1 or if it's an isolated problem :)
Craig
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