x11/nvidia-driver: crash with FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE/amd64 when module loaded via /boot/loader.conf

[Christian Gusenbauer]

Hi Oliver!

I'm using stable/9 and amd64 setup, too, but I do not experience such page 
faults as you do. I've an older GeForce 7600 GT card and I'm using driver 
285.05.09 - neither OS nor driver built with clang. Perhaps it's a clang 
issue?

Ciao,
Christian.

On Tuesday 03 January 2012 11:15:20 O. Hartmann wrote:
> On one of my FreeBSD 9.0 boxes running FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE/amd64 (CLANG
> built), equipted with a nVidia GT760Ti graphics board, loading the
> nvidia module via /boot/loader.conf results in a page fault with random
> error messages before rebooting.
> 
> Booting the box without the nvidia.ko module loaded in he preboot phase,
> results in a stable system. I can then load the module via kldload and
> the system jumps then into X11-screen as usual.
> 
> I recompile x11/nvidia-driver on a regular basis when recompiling the
> kernel, so the module is always up to date and en par with the kernel
> sources.
> 
> The problem occurs idendependently of having kernel module drm.ko loaded
> or not. I also tried falling back to the older nvidia driver 285.05.09
> (I use at the moment successfully 290.10).
> 
> Before issuing a PR and doing a full debug reconfiguration of my box,
> I'd like to ask whether this is a commong, well known problem since with
> FreeBSD 9.0, I'd like to stay with STABLE rather than with RELEASE.
> 
> Regards,
> Oliver