NVidia driver stability?

[Will Saxon]

Well I have to say that about 30min after I wrote in originally, I started having problems. X locked up, but I could switch around to different vty's and also ctrl-alt-bksp out of X. However, when I tried to restart X my machine locked up entirely.

I am wondering though if it is all the nvidia driver's fault - while my machine has been stable through installation of the nvidia driver it is now being screwy even after removal of the driver. It's basically locking hard after about 5-10 minutes every time I use it, and sometimes I cannot even log in. I guess I don't know what to think.

-Will

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Munish Chopra [mailto:mchopra at engmail.uwaterloo.ca]
> Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 5:57 PM
> To: current at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: NVidia driver stability?
> 
> 
> On 2003-07-12 14:46 +0000, Evan Dower wrote:
> > After following all the instructions at 
> > http://www.soulwax.net/nvidia/faq.shtml _very_ carefully 
> and compiling 
> > nvidia-driver WITH_FREEBSD_AGP, WITH_NVIDIA_HACKS, and with 
> FORCE_AGP_RATE, 
> > my system was dramatically slower and substantially _less_ 
> stable. (I had 
> > to switch to another computer to write this email). 
> Interestingly, whenever 
> > I compile the kernel without optimizations, network 
> activity becomes _very_ 
> > slow.
> > E
> > aka Evan Dower
> > Undergraduate, Computer Science
> > University of Washington
> > 
> 
> Did you try using the NVIDIA AGP interface?
> 
> The majority of mail I get indicates that the NVIDIA AGP stuff works
> better than the FreeBSD one.
> 
> I'm not sure about your network problems, perhaps you should 
> look at the
> driver for clues.
> 
> -- 
> Munish Chopra
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