Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:12:04 -0500 From: "Indigo 23" <indigo23@gmail.com> To: kirk@strauser.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: nvidia-driver-1.0.8776 was giving me READ_DMA timeouts Message-ID: <6f50eac40611111312t43c792bdlb03af9a1435f9c4d@mail.gmail.com>
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> I upgraded my 6.1-STABLE box a week or so ago, and numerous ports at the same > time. For the last week, I've had all sorts of random reboots on a normally > rock solid system. Yesterday I noticed that whenever I was looking at a > console, the machine was stable as usual, but when X was visible, the ATA > drives would throw spurious READ_DMA timeouts. I downgraded from > nvidia-driver-1.0.8776 to .8774 and the problems have completely disappeared > and the system is back to normal. > > I know it sounds silly and I can't explain it, but the most recent NVidia > drivers made my system feel as stable as Windows ME on an overclocked Cyrix. > I'm posting this here mainly for the benefit of anyone else who might be > having similar problems. > -- > Kirk Strauser I also had similar problems with the latest nvidia drivers on FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE. My box used to run rock solid, then after the update to .8776, it started locking up under heavy loads when X was running. Any idea if this is a known bug in the drivers (i.e. nvidia is aware of the problem)?
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