Kernel crash on Asus A7N8X-X

[Frédéric PRACA]

Selon Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu at freebsd.org>:

> On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 11:59:59PM +0100, Frédéric PRACA wrote:
> > Hello dear hackers,
> > I own a Asus A7N8X-X motherboard (NForce2 chipset) with a Radeon 9600 video
> > card. After upgrading from 6.3 to 7.0, I launched xorg which crashed the
> kernel.
> > After looking in the kernel core dump, I found that the
> agp_nvidia_flush_tlb
> > function of /usr/src/sys/pci/agp_nvidia.c crashed on the line 377. The loop
> > fails from the beginning (when i==0). I commented out the two last loops
> and it
> > seems to work now but as I didn't understand what is this code for, I'd
> like to
> > have some explanation about it and want to know if someone got the same
> problem.
>
> I'm in no way familiar with X.
>
> That said: you're using an ATI Radeon card, yet the kernel crashed in
> agp_nvidia.c.  nVidia != ATI.  Is it possible that you changed video
> cards at one point, and you're still using the nVidia AGP driver (loaded
> via /boot/loader.conf)?
No, in fact, agp_nvidia.c is the driver for the AGP bus of the NForce2
motherboard chipset, not the video card.

> dmesg might be useful here.
Why not but I can't copy it for the moment.

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