From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 29 07:18:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 673F316A4CE for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 07:18:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from king.mcs.drexel.edu (king.mcs.drexel.edu [129.25.6.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 198DA43F75 for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 07:18:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jsmith@drexel.edu) Received: from vorpal.mcs.drexel.edu (vorpal.mcs.drexel.edu [129.25.6.250]) by king.mcs.drexel.edu (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hATFIhBL006910; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 10:18:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from drexel.edu (vorpal.mcs.drexel.edu [129.25.6.250]) hATFIcOH043589; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 10:18:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jsmith@drexel.edu) Message-ID: <3FC8B8CE.6040002@drexel.edu> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 10:18:38 -0500 From: Justin Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031016 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Harald Schmalzbauer References: <3FC4E595.5000308@drexel.edu> <200311261919.11942@harrymail> In-Reply-To: <200311261919.11942@harrymail> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nvidia problem fixed in current? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 15:18:47 -0000 Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: >On Wednesday 26 November 2003 18:40, Justin Smith wrote: > > >>1. Was the problem with the nvidia driver ever fixed? (I reported this >>more than a month ago --- the kernel nvidia driver only works with >>parameters set to lower the speed of the interface, and even then failed >>with some OpenGL programs like OpenUniverse). >> >> > > > The kernel nvidia driver worked fine in 5.1. It only STOPPED working when I upgraded to 5.2 beta (and rebuilt and reinstalled the kernel driver). This is a problem of 5.2 vs 5.1 ---- something changed that stopped it from working. Perhaps some libraries in 5.2 are no longer compatible with the nvidia kernel driver (since it is, fundamentally, a binary program --- one cannot recompile the core of it). Perhaps it's a problem with AGP in 5.2. Slowing down AGP (to 1x) allows the nvidia driver to work but it still reboots the machine whenever I try to do anything that involves OpenGL... Also, it's odd the the thing fails in such a strange manner (rebooting the machine without any error messages).