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
Michael Jung wrote:
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
Sure, I did that. (actually, nvidia-xconfig did that for me)
I also have both devd and hald running.
Same here.
So after a couple of days of suffering I gave up and ordered
a new GeForce GT 730, arrived today. I was surprised that
the nv driver reported that it is not supported. Switching
to nvidia 340 driver now it works perfectly and is fast.
So an eight year old GeForce 7300 GT or 7600 GS is too old
to be supported by nv driver (and nvidia 304 driver was
unstable with 7300, although it works with 7600 on another
host on a lower resolution screen), yet a year old GT 730
is too young to be supported by nv.
Luckily it works very well with nvidia-driver(-340).
I wonder if 7300 GT + nvidia-driver-304 stuttering / holdups
and instability can be due to a higher resolution of a monitor
attached to that host, or (judging by the symptoms) may it be
due to fighting over free memory with ZFS ARC under FreeBSD 10.1,
which still seems unresolved:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187594
Bug 187594 - [zfs] [patch] ZFS ARC behavior problem and fix
Mark
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