Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:00:21 +0000 From: "Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: "FreeBSD Mailing List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: nvidia-driver rebooting machine on X startup Message-ID: <bef9a7920709251500v3ba7ded0kf535d0cc1c3867e7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200709252353.20728.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> References: <a62d17300709241214q49479bc7p26d1d3551ccf33be@mail.gmail.com> <200709242235.27017.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <a62d17300709250522w4aaa24bap9a54c641431079dc@mail.gmail.com> <200709252353.20728.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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In some situations that will not work... for example 7.2 completely fails on a P35 chipset... see my update post for some ideas. --Aryeh On 9/25/07, Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> wrote: > On Tuesday 25 September 2007 14:22:56 falz wrote: > > > Maybe someone can build a WITNESS/DDB kernel, since dumping seems to be > > > failing? > > > > I compiled these options in last night, but I'm afraid I'm not quite > > sure what special steps I need to do to utilize those options, if any. > > I built that kernel, booted into it, started xorg with the nvidia > > driver, it immediately reboots just as it did before. > > > > Something else that's odd that just started happening that's similar > > to the original poster- their xorg.conf was being truncated to zero > > bytes. Mine somehow gets changed to what appears to be a different > > version. The bottom line in it is about 20 "U"s, and the 'Driver > > "nvidia"' lines I added were gone. I have several xorg.conf files > > named other things, but none have these characteristics. > > > I fear it's a hard reboot then, if DDB doesn't catch anything. DDB is a kernel > debugger, even if dump isn't on, it will catch panic stages. > > Stray bytes and truncated files are another sign of hard reboot. I'm afraid > only nvidia can catch this one. Try downgrading to Xorg 7.2 and use the 97xx > series of the driver, then freeze it until you see some solution posted :p > > -- > Mel > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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