Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:37:17 +0200 From: "Diego Depaoli" <trebestie@gmail.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recent nvidia-driver trouble Message-ID: <83e5fb980706151237j6f4b31adjf5399dfd4b9de37a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070615203136.402a2df5.garyj@jennejohn.org> References: <1181929982.1086.6.camel@worf> <20070615203136.402a2df5.garyj@jennejohn.org>
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2007/6/15, Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org>: > On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:53:02 +0200 > Pascal Hofstee <caelian@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Sometime during the last week i have started to encounter trouble with > > my system locking up trying to switch from X to console, but only when > > using the nvidia-driver kernel module. Using the plain "nv" driver > > works without any problems ... When the lock up happens the system > > seems to no longer respond to keyboard input etc. (haven't been able > > to confirm wether or not remote access is still possible). > > > > Is anybody else experiencing similar problems out there ... this has > > used to work for months without problems ... i made sure to force a > > reinstall of the nvidia-driver port on every new kernel install but > > that just doesn't seem to solve the problem either. Me too > > > > I've seen this also. It's a panic due to a NULL-pointer dereference > someplace in the nvidia-driver. I suspect that it's related to the > recent locking/mutex/whatever changes but can't prove it. All the > crash dumps which I have are corrupted so I can't do a backtrace :-( I agree. This time nvidia-driver and xorg-server rebuild doesn't solve the problem. -- Diego Depaoli
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