x11/nvidia-driver and opengl

[VANHULLEBUS Yvan]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 07:10:00PM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote:
> VANHULLEBUS Yvan wrote:
> > On the second, on a Geforce2MX, on which I had 3 reboots yesterday
> > while logged in (and while xscreensaver was running), where I had no
> > problems before (when I was still using nv driver), and which doesn't
> > hang when I access it remotely.
> 
> Was it an OpenGL screensaver?

Yes, it freezed "some time" (probably the cycle time) after the start
of the first GL screensaver.

[...]
> It's not a problem of overheating here, I can reproduce it at any time,
> even if the box is cold (even glxinfo does the job). I'll try with some
> live cd to see if it is hardware related, however I don't think so.
> I think the problem occurs when the GLX extension gets unloaded or
> something similar.

Yep, I just tested again, I started xscreensaver-config, selected a GL
screensaver in demo mode, then clicked on another screensaver, and it
freezed at that moment.

I'll try to do more tests (changing to another NVidia graphic card,
etc...), and I'll try to find some configuration differences between
this host and the other FreeBSD 6.1 / NVidia host I'm using, and which
have no problems with GL screensavers for months now, with same
version of nvidia-driver.


Yvan.

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