Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:36:45 +0100 From: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org> To: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: X becomes unresponsive with nvidia / xscreensaver and desktop panics Message-ID: <20090108083645.GA56613@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d0901072349i50d04d2ch34f308388c9fd414@mail.gmail.com> References: <7d6fde3d0901072349i50d04d2ch34f308388c9fd414@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 11:49:26PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Hello folks, > As many probably know, I recently installed FreeBSD 8-CURRENT on my desktop. > One of the things I'm noting is that when I use dual displays with > the nvidia driver, and xscreensaver kicks in and keeps going for a > period of time, the machine's X.org console eats up a core, and when I > try and do anything like gdb Xorg, the system hangs, attempts to panic > (I assume that's the case because I hear it beep and attempt to > restart), then I have to give it a warm boot. truss(1)'ing Xorg showed > that there were a lot of SIGALARM's being fired and masked. > This is incredibly reminiscent of the days when I used to run Linux and > I forgot to configure my dump device (doh), but this problem appears > to be easily reproducible with my environment. I'm fixing that issue > right now, so I should have a working crashdump soon... > Just wondering if anyone else has seen this issue, or if it's just me > once again. > Thanks, the nvidia driver keeps my 8-current crashing/deadlocking when playing video quite often (once a week?). I have no idea what it causes. the code of the driver seems to be done in 5.x times. I believe it needs some rehashing as it might not get the semantics of "things" in 8.x right
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