From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 8 08:55:53 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FE90106564A for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 08:55:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rdivacky@vlk.vlakno.cz) Received: from vlakno.cz (77-93-215-190.static.masterinter.net [77.93.215.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1987C8FC13 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 08:55:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rdivacky@vlk.vlakno.cz) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vlakno.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 823209CB1BA; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:36:48 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at vlakno.cz Received: from vlakno.cz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (lev.vlakno.cz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ng47Wp0N3Mal; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:36:46 +0100 (CET) Received: from vlk.vlakno.cz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vlakno.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5A239CB22D; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:36:45 +0100 (CET) Received: (from rdivacky@localhost) by vlk.vlakno.cz (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id n088ajcG056931; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:36:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rdivacky) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:36:45 +0100 From: Roman Divacky To: Garrett Cooper Message-ID: <20090108083645.GA56613@freebsd.org> References: <7d6fde3d0901072349i50d04d2ch34f308388c9fd414@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d0901072349i50d04d2ch34f308388c9fd414@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: X becomes unresponsive with nvidia / xscreensaver and desktop panics X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:55:53 -0000 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