On 2014-12-23 10:20, Mark Martinec wrote:
Tijl Coosemans wrote:
This card is still supported by x11/nvidia-driver-304
Mark Martinec wrote:
Good suggestion! It does seem to draw screen and scroll
much faster than NV (although it seems to stall from time
to time (like unresponsive mouse) on a busy host).
Will need to test more thoroughly tomorrow when poudriere
builds will be over. Thanks!
Actually it did not turn out well. Although nvidia-driver-304 with
a GeForce 7300 GT does not suffer from slow scrolls and slow rendering
of web pages, it frequently stalls (like every minute) and nothing
happens for a dozen of seconds: mouse cannot move a cursor, a cursor
may even temporarily disappear, typing on an xterm or konsole window
is unresponsive. It appears as if a host is terribly busy, even though
it is not (the yesterday's poudriere build was over, and I even
rebooted the host, with nvidia driver loaded by a boot loader
this time).
After a dozen of seconds or so, things get back at being responsive
again, until the next lockup. Occasionally a window may become
scrambled, but rectifies itself after a while. After trying to
work in this situation for a while, eventually screen turned black,
with a host totally locked up - not even responding to ssh or ping
or ctrl alt F1, or a soft ACPI power off button, so had to be
forcibly rebooted.
So in the end I had to revert back to the NV driver, which is
now slow, but at least is stable and consistent. I guess we need
to start looking for a new graphics board, quite unfortunate.
Mark
FWIW on i386 current r275874 I do no have these lockup issues
with nvidia GeForce Go 7300
I did find that though loading the nvidia kernel module in
/boot/loader.conf was not enough, I had to create a small
xorg.conf simply containing
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection
or GLX instead of NV-GLX would try to be loaded
grep GLX Xorg.0.log-without-xorg.conf
[ 21401.540] (II) NVIDIA GLX Module 304.125 Mon Dec 1 20:18:39 PST
2014
[ 21401.540] Loading extension GLX
[ 21401.782] (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA
X driver not found)
grep GLX Xorg.0.log-with-xorg.conf
[ 21298.014] (II) NVIDIA GLX Module 304.125 Mon Dec 1 20:18:39 PST
2014
[ 21298.014] Loading extension GLX
[ 21298.839] Loading extension NV-GLX
[ 21298.931] (II) Initializing extension GLX
http://mail.mikej.com/Xorg.0.log-without-xorg.conf
http://mail.mikej.com/Xorg.0.log-with-xorg.conf
I also have both devd and hald running.
--mikej
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