nvidia-driver rebooting machine on X startup

[Mel]

On Monday 24 September 2007 21:14:03 falz wrote:
> I came across this thread on freebsd-questions after some searching on
> google. I have the exact same issue as others here- if xorg is started
> with 'nvidia' as the driver, instant reboot. However, my machine is a
> 100% fresh install with things compiled from source this weekend.
> However, I did have to install some binary vncserver packages, but
> they have since been removed.
>
> I did the 'xorg' meta port which got me the current xorg-7.3_1. The
> machine I did the install on was running Debian Unstable for about a
> year without issue with the same hardware (two cards for 3 monitors):
>
> Sep 24 13:41:24 falz kernel: nvidia0: <GeForce 7100 GS> mem
> 0xdd000000-0xddffffff,0xb0000000-0xbfffffff,0xde000000-0xdeffffff irq
> 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
> Sep 24 13:41:24 falz kernel: nvidia0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> Sep 24 13:41:24 falz kernel: nvidia1: <GeForce FX 5200> mem
> 0xdb000000-0xdbffffff,0xc0000000-0xcfffffff irq 18 at device 2.0 on
> pci3
> Sep 24 13:41:24 falz kernel: nvidia1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>

I forgot, but was there one person in the thread that has only 1 monitor 
attached to 1 card? Cause you're the 3rd I see with multiple monitor issues.
Ironically, we have one system with CRT + TV-OUT through one card, with no 
issues whatsoever (500GB HDD, DVDRW, rock on!). However I turned off Xinerama 
support from the get go and use TwinView.

With all the Xorg 7.3 issues, I have not gone that road nor plan to anytime 
soon.

I also think we've had all the different cards by now, a quatro, GeForce 5k, 
7k, 6k...

Maybe someone can build a WITNESS/DDB kernel, since dumping seems to be 
failing?

-- 
Mel