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

[Pierre-Luc Drouin]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Mario Lobo <lobo at bsd.com.br> wrote:

>  On Tuesday 10 May 2011 15:21:07 Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
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> > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Ivan Klymenko <fidaj at ukr.net> wrote:
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> > > В Tue, 10 May 2011 17:31:53 +0200
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> > >
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> > > Patrick Lamaiziere <patfbsd at davenulle.org> пишет:
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> > > > Hi,
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> > > >
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> > > > I've got a new box running 8.2-stable with amd64 + linuxulator +
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> > > > nvidia driver. Quite often when watching video on youtube the box
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> > > > freeze (no panic).
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> > > >
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> > > > Are there some known problems with this kind of configuration on
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> > > > amd64? (Works fine on my old laptop using 8.2/i386)
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> > > >
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> > > > I don't know where is problem, but one time the machine crashed just
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> > > > after a pkill of npviewer.bin (they were in the futex state), so it
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> > > > could be the linuxulator?
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> > >
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> > > I have encountered in the system exactly the same problem
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> > >
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> > > uname -a
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> > > FreeBSD nonamehost 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0 r221598:
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> > > Sat May 7 17:28:18 EEST 2011
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> > > ivan at nonamehost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/mk9 amd64
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> > >
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> > > pciconf -lv|grep Ge
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> > >
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> > > device = 'Geforce 8400M GS (unknown)'
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> > >
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> > > pkg_info|grep nvidi
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> > > nvidia-driver-270.41.06 NVidia graphics card binary drivers for
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> > > hardware OpenGL ren
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> > >
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> > > dmesg|grep NVRM
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> > > NVRM: Xid (0000:01:00): 13, 000a 00000000 00008297 000019d0
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> > > 0000003c 00000100
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> > >
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> > > they were observed for nearly all nvidia drivers for amd64...
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> > > I tried to change the different options:
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> > > setenv VDPAU_NVIDIA_NO_OVERLAY=1 -> ~/.cshrc
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> > > Option "Xinerama" "False" and Option "Xinerama" "0"
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> > > -> /etc/X11/xorg.conf
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> > > cat /etc/adobe/mms.cfg
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> > > OverrideGPUValidation=false
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> > > AutoUpdateDisable=true
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> > > EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=0
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> > > FullScreenDisable=false
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> > >
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> > > and it seems to me it helped for flashplayer...
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> > >
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> > > but the situation as a whole wants the best, because these problems
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> > > continue with using VDPAU
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> > >
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> > > so I'm leaning that cause these problems in drivers...
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> > >
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> > > sorry for my english...
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> > I have had the same problem as well in the past when I tried killing
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> > npviewer.bin . Also using an NVidia card on amd64...
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> >
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> > Thanks
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>
> Are you guys using nspluginwrapper-devel?
>
>
> Since I started using it I have no more freezes in firefox and no more
> dangling npviewer.bin processes. YouTube plays fine for as many videos as I
> want.
>
>
> By the way, I never experienced system freezes even when I was using a
> non-devel wrapper. Only firefox froze with watching flash videos. All I had
> to do was to kill it and kill the npviewer.bins.
>
>
> My system:
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> FreeBSD Papi 8.2-STABLE Tue May 3 13:17:39 BRT 2011 amd64
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> NVIDIA Driver Version: 270.41.06
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> device = 'NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT (G92)'
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>
> --
>
> Mario Lobo
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> http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br
>
> FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99% winblows FREE)
>

I am using the non-devel version of nspluginwrapper. On my system, flash
causes firefox to hang for maybe 10-20 seconds sometimes, but this resolves
by itself... I think the problem that was originally identified and that I
am also experiencing is not necessarily the same as what you are describing,
although it is nice to know that the hanging problems might be gone with
nspluginwrapper-devel. Usually when I kill npviewer.bin though, it is to
prevent it from generating CPU load...

Thanks