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Date:      Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:12:21 +0200
From:      Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, Darren Spruell <phatbuckett@gmail.com>, "Philip M. Gollucci" <philip@ridecharge.com>
Subject:   Re: nvidia-driver rebooting machine on X startup
Message-ID:  <200709122312.22676.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
In-Reply-To: <46E727E4.4030105@ridecharge.com>
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On Wednesday 12 September 2007 01:42:28 Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
> Darren Spruell wrote:
> > If this *is* an issue with the nvidia driver, is there a good way for
> > us to alert Nvidia? Customer support, I guess?
>
> I've had the same issue, but I think I solved it since its working for
> me.  If I had to guess, this was Jul 27, 2007 that I went through this.
>
> I did something similar or harder in May 2007, but the driver versions
> were older then and so was the ports tree -- it was also on 6.2-release-p2.
>
> uname -a
> FreeBSD philip.hq.rws 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Thu Jul 26
> 16:44:37 EDT 2007
> root@philip.office.rws:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>
> nvidia0: <GeForce 8600 GTS> port 0xdc80-0xdcff mem
> 0xde000000-0xdeffffff,0xc0000000-0xcfffffff,0xdc000000-0xddffffff irq 16
> at device 0.0 on pci1
> nvidia0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> nvidia0: [ITHREAD]

Did any of you determine whether it's a kernel crash or magical reboot by 
allowing the kernel to dump and/or running WITNESS on -current?

-- 
Mel



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