nvidia-driver rebooting machine on X startup

[Eric Ekong]

Seems there is a new driver in ports as of yesterday for nvidia.
Anyone tried it as of yet?

Eric
* Mel <fbsd.questions at rachie.is-a-geek.net> [070912 17:43]:
> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:43:42 +0200
> From: Mel <fbsd.questions at rachie.is-a-geek.net>
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: nvidia-driver rebooting machine on X startup
> 
> On Wednesday 12 September 2007 23:21:57 Eric Ekong wrote:
> > * Darren Spruell <phatbuckett at gmail.com> [070911 19:20]:
> > > Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:20:00 -0700
> > > From: Darren Spruell <phatbuckett at gmail.com>
> > > To: Bruce Cran <bruce at cran.org.uk>
> > > Cc: Mel <fbsd.questions at rachie.is-a-geek.net>,
> > > 	freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > > Subject: Re: nvidia-driver rebooting machine on X startup
> > >
> > > On 9/11/07, Bruce Cran <bruce at cran.org.uk> wrote:
> > > > Mel wrote:
> > > > > There's 3 things left I can think of:
> > > > > - weird module clash
> > > > > - bug in nvidia-driver (I assume you're running Xorg 7.x)
> > > > > - driver was not built against running kernel
> > > >
> > > > I'm seeing a similar problem, but my system spontaneously reboots
> > > > whenever it uses any 3D - for example any of the 3D xscreensaver
> > > > modules in full screen mode.   I'm running 7.0-CURRENT and just
> > > > realised I have PREEMPTION enabled since it's now in GENERIC.  I
> > > > remember a while ago this caused stability problems with the nvidia
> > > > driver - does anyone know if this could still be a problem?   I think
> > > > there's more going on however, since the driver doesn't seem to know
> > > > about my card during bootup (it shows <Unknown>) though it clearly does
> > > > find it when starting Xorg.   Going back to the nvidia-driver-96xx port
> > > > appears to fix the problems, and that driver does know what nVidia card
> > > > I'm using during boot.
> > >
> > > 3 of us have posted a thread on nvidia forums as problem reports; I've
> > > at least tried an older (legacy) driver version to no luck and
> > > eliminated every suggestion I've gotten from the fbsd community as
> > > well.
> > >
> > > If anyone would like, feel free to piggyback on the thread. There's
> > > been no help response on the forums for a couple of days now.
> > >
> > > http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=45590
> > >
> > > If this *is* an issue with the nvidia driver, is there a good way for
> > > us to alert Nvidia? Customer support, I guess?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Darren Spruell
> > > phatbuckett at gmail.com
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> > Seems like even more than that in the freebsd forums located here...
> >
> > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=47
> >
> > Might want to repost here as well.
> 
> Hmm:
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1313960&postcount=2
> 
> My guess is they were in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg. Any chance you guys have 
> stale libraries hiding away (use ldconfig -r when in doubt)?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Mel
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