cvs commit: ports/x11/nvidia-driver Makefile distinfo pkg-plist

[Garrett Cooper]

2010/4/26 Rene Ladan <rene at freebsd.org>:
> On 26-04-2010 22:41, Max Laier wrote:
>> On Monday 26 April 2010 16:35:12 Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>>> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:30:00PM +0200, Max Laier wrote:
>>>> On Sunday 25 April 2010 22:20:49 Doug Barton wrote:
>>>>> On 04/25/10 11:17, Max Laier wrote:
>>>>>> On Saturday 10 April 2010 15:40:07 Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>>>>>>> danfe       2010-04-10 13:40:07 UTC
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   FreeBSD ports repository
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   Modified files:
>>>>>>>     x11/nvidia-driver    Makefile distinfo pkg-plist
>>>>>>>   Log:
>>>>>>>   - Update nVidia BETA drivers to version 195.36.15
>>>>>>
>>>>>> might be me, but it looks like the BETA driver has been more stable.
>>>>>> I just downgraded back to BETA and now X doesn't hang anymore after
>>>>>> ~30min.
>>>>>
>>>>> I had to downgrade back to 195.22. When running the latest version I
>>>>> had freezes similar to what Max described. If it ran successfully for
>>>>> any length of time it would lock up as soon as xscreensaver kicked in.
>>>>
>>>> not related to xscreensaver in my case, I don't think.  It was locking up
>>>> while playing video in xine which - afaik - disables the screensaver.  As
>>>> always, X lock ups are hard to track down unfortunately.  On the plus
>>>> side, it doesn't seem to be a hard lock up - i.e. the power button would
>>>> still get me to a clean shutdown eventually, but interrupts didn't fire
>>>> anymore (at least the network stops working).  I can't attach a serial
>>>> console at the moment to get into DDB.  Will try to, tomorrow.
>>>
>>> Please do.  I am still not able to reproduce it here on Februarish
>>> -CURRENT/amd64 with GFX260.  You might also want to lurk on nVidia
>>> forums at http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=47 to see
>>> if someone has similar issues.
>>
>> There are quite a few reports.  I did a diff on the glue code and there are a
>> few changes between 22 and 36 that could be the culprit.  I'll investigate
>> further and let you know.  8.0-RELEASE here, by the way - does anyone know if
>> there are (missing) MFCs regarding the cdevpriv API?  That's one of the bigger
>> changes in the glue code.
>>
> The drviver seems to run ok here. X.org 7.4 has been running for 27
> hours now, without lockups.  I'm using the blank screensaver inside
> X.org (first blank the screen, then power down the screen).
>
> This is on an Acer Aspire 7738G with this video card:
> (II) Apr 25 20:10:17 NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce GT 240M (GT216) at
> PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)

    Hmmm... this is part of an issue I need to triage on my two
machines. I have two machines with similar hardware specs:

Intel W3520 in both
12GB RAM, same vendor in both
Different nvidia cards; same model -- 9600GT, different memory
amounts, different vendors
Different DVD drives (shouldn't matter)
Different hard drives
An LSI RAID card in one
A snd_emu10kx sound card in the server/workstation.

    There are a few variables in the mix, but my machines hardlock
from approximately a week usage with sources based off r206031, using
ahci(4) [instead of ata(4) -- I switched over my machines to use
ahci(4) 2 weeks ago], and this particular driver version... I'll
downgrade nvidia-drivers and see what happens.
Thanks,
-Garrett