FreeBSD locks up when X-windows running (LONG)

[Alex Zbyslaw]

Andreas Kohn wrote:

>Hi,
>
>say, do you see any messages like 
>
>NVRM: Xid: 13, 0000 02005600 00000056 00000c28 006500ac 00000080
>
>(Numbers may vary, I think) 
>in your kernel messages after such a lock-up happened?
>  
>
AFAIK this is not a FreeBSD-specific problem.  I think this URL is right 
but the site isn't responding at the moment.  I don't know if there is a 
solution there or not.  There were some interesting comments about 
running glxgears before running a game making things better, if that's 
the kind of thing you are doing (gaming, that is), but I never got to 
the end of the thread.  Most people reported the problem on much newer 
cards but the Xid is the classic symptom.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=49117

You could always try the nv drivers.  My Ge2 worked fine on them for 
years, while my  6600 suffered corruption at least once a day.

--Alex