nvidia-driver 195.22 use horribly broken on amd64 between r206173 and

[Garrett Cooper]

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 11:48 AM, datastream datastream.freecity
<datastream.freecity at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 2:11 AM, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 05/26/10 09:51, Kostik Belousov wrote:
>>>
>>> I did a quick glance over the driver, try this:
>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/misc/nvidia-vm_page_lock.1.patch
>>> I did not even compiled the patched driver.
>>
>> Ok, I just tried this with an r208622 kernel and sources, and the system
>> locks up as soon as I type 'startx'. No panic, no core dump, it just wedges,
>> requiring it to be powered off.
>>
>>
>  http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=150719
> NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-195.36.24 with r208117 in my T61 laptop works well.

    I'll try out this driver then. I'll have to see what the delta was
with the kernel glue...
Thanks for the feedback,
-Garrett