NVidia GeForce 6600 problems

[Alejandro Pulver]

Hello,

I have recently bought a GeForce 6600 video card, and sometimes (not
very often) I experience the following problem:

A little after starting X11 (for example when I start downloading
e-mails), the screen freezes a few seconds, after that the screen looks
like if widgets (buttons, text, etc.) aren't drawn, and the white
background of Sylpheed-Claws covers the screen. Then I am forced to
switch to the 1st console (Ctrl+Alt+F1), which takes around 30 seconds,
and then kill X11.

I have FreeBSD 5.4 release, Xorg 6.8.2 and nvidia-driver 1.0.8178.

I know this problem is with the driver, because I got this kernel
message:

NVRM: Xid: 8, Channel 00000000
NVRM: Xid: 8, Channel 00000020

And the Xorg log has the following:

(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e75c, 0)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e75c, 0)
Failed to switch consoles (Invalid argument)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e834, 0)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e834, 0)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 4, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e844, 0)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 4, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e844, 0)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e878, 0)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e878, 0)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e89c, 0)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e89c, 0)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e8ac, 0)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e8ac, 0)
FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2,
should be 1; fixing.

If more information is needed just ask (and please tell me how to
obtain it).

What can I do? Should I update FreeBSD/Xorg?

Thanks and Best Regards,
Ale