Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 20:51:40 +0930 From: Ian Moore <no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Andreas Kohn <andreas@syndrom23.de>, mikef@ack.berkeley.edu, Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD locks up when X-windows running (LONG) Message-ID: <200507102051.52829.no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au> In-Reply-To: <1120993478.93711.6.camel@klamath.syndrom23.de> References: <1120686579.2782.4.camel@klamath.syndrom23.de> <42CCF88B.60504@dial.pipex.com> <1120993478.93711.6.camel@klamath.syndrom23.de>
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--nextPart1395616.qIPWnoLySq Content-Type: text/plain; charset="cp 850" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 10 July 2005 20:34, Andreas Kohn wrote: > I'm using the nvidia-provided drivers because of the speed increase they > give. nv works fine, yes...but too slow :) > > I spent some time reading through the posts, and yes, there were some > very interesting things said there. Thanks for the pointer. > For some reason, my system now works with 7667. No hangs, no NVRM > messages. > The only things I changed: > - a lot of reinstalling 6113/7667, perhaps somewhere there was a > corrupted file that now got mysteriously replaced by a correct > version? > - playing with modelines. I changed the resolution from 1920x1200 to > 1600x1000, to gain a higher refresh rate. Before, I also saw > NVRM: Xid: 17, Head=3D0 X=3D1920 Y=3D1200 Refresh=3D75 > which I regarded as simple information items from nvidia-driver. I > don't get these messages with 1600x1000 anymore. > > So whatever it was, it looks gone. Unfortunately, I can't give any tips > on what to try :/ > I don't know if this is relevant to your problem, but whenever I update X, = I=20 have to portupgrade -f my nvidia driver because it causes X to crash whenev= er=20 any opengl apps are run (eg glxgears, opengl screen savers). If you had updated part of X recently, it may have been the source of your= =20 problem. Cheers, =2D-=20 Ian gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc --nextPart1395616.qIPWnoLySq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBC0QTQPUlnmbKkJ6ARApL3AJ9mMQbQ6VqHNOfsgAAquN7A8483KACgooVE PB3fT8qEchbWmsYZpZTOydA= =hB7K -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1395616.qIPWnoLySq--
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