(8.2) amd64 + linuxulator + nvidia driver is it stable ?

[Pierre-Luc Drouin]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Ivan Klymenko <fidaj at ukr.net> wrote:

> В Tue, 10 May 2011 17:31:53 +0200
> Patrick Lamaiziere <patfbsd at davenulle.org> пишет:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've got a new box running 8.2-stable with amd64 + linuxulator +
> > nvidia driver. Quite often when watching video on youtube the box
> > freeze (no panic).
> >
> > Are there some known problems with this kind of configuration on
> > amd64? (Works fine on my old laptop using 8.2/i386)
> >
> > I don't know where is problem, but one time the machine crashed just
> > after a pkill of npviewer.bin (they were in the futex state), so it
> > could be the linuxulator?
> >
>
> I have encountered in the system exactly the same problem
>
>        uname -a
>        FreeBSD nonamehost 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0 r221598:
>        Sat May 7 17:28:18 EEST 2011
>        ivan at nonamehost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/mk9  amd64
>
>        pciconf -lv|grep Ge
>            device     = 'Geforce 8400M GS (unknown)'
>
>        pkg_info|grep nvidi
>        nvidia-driver-270.41.06 NVidia graphics card binary drivers for
>        hardware OpenGL ren
>
>        dmesg|grep NVRM
>        NVRM: Xid (0000:01:00): 13, 000a 00000000 00008297 000019d0
>        0000003c 00000100
>
> they were observed for nearly all nvidia drivers for amd64...
> I tried to change the different options:
> setenv VDPAU_NVIDIA_NO_OVERLAY=1 -> ~/.cshrc
> Option         "Xinerama" "False" and Option         "Xinerama" "0"
> -> /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> cat /etc/adobe/mms.cfg
> OverrideGPUValidation=false
> AutoUpdateDisable=true
> EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=0
> FullScreenDisable=false
>
> and it seems to me it helped for flashplayer...
>
> but the situation as a whole wants the best, because these problems
> continue with using VDPAU
>
> so I'm leaning that cause these problems in drivers...
>
> sorry for my english...
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I have had the same problem as well in the past when I tried killing
npviewer.bin . Also using an NVidia card on amd64...

Thanks