Nvidia driver problems

[Jeremy Messenger]

On 09 Jun 2003 23:22:55 +0200, Sascha Holzleiter <sascha at daemonground.de> 
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> just got these messages with a today -CURRENT and the nvidia driver
> compiled with FREEBSD_AGP:
>
<snip>
>
> Is this just a "the nvidia driver isn't officially for the 5.x series"
> issue or shouldn't this happen at all?
>
> If I compile the module without FREEBSD_AGP and use it with the
> debugging kernel the system core-dumps. Without debugging activated in
> the kernel this is running quite stable...

Disable the debug is always the solution to me so far.

Let me quote it from http://www.minion.de/nvidia.html :
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Potential FreeBSD specific sources of instabilities are such kernel 
configurations that enable debugging or aggressive optimizations. You 
should keep this in mind if you are seeing seemingly random panics.
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Cheers,
Mezz


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