Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 10:40:27 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Andreas Kohn <andreas@syndrom23.de> Cc: mikef@ack.Berkeley.EDU, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD locks up when X-windows running (LONG) Message-ID: <42CCF88B.60504@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <1120686579.2782.4.camel@klamath.syndrom23.de> References: <1120686579.2782.4.camel@klamath.syndrom23.de>
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Andreas Kohn wrote: >Hi, > >say, do you see any messages like > >NVRM: Xid: 13, 0000 02005600 00000056 00000c28 006500ac 00000080 > >(Numbers may vary, I think) >in your kernel messages after such a lock-up happened? > > AFAIK this is not a FreeBSD-specific problem. I think this URL is right but the site isn't responding at the moment. I don't know if there is a solution there or not. There were some interesting comments about running glxgears before running a game making things better, if that's the kind of thing you are doing (gaming, that is), but I never got to the end of the thread. Most people reported the problem on much newer cards but the Xid is the classic symptom. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=49117 You could always try the nv drivers. My Ge2 worked fine on them for years, while my 6600 suffered corruption at least once a day. --Alex
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