From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 23 20:29:55 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1E4B136C; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 20:29:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx2.paymentallianceintl.com (mx2.paymentallianceintl.com [216.26.158.171]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mx2.paymentallianceintl.com", Issuer "Go Daddy Secure Certification Authority" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BBF8B26A3; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 20:29:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from firewallnew (162-230-214-65.lightspeed.lsvlky.sbcglobal.net [162.230.214.65]) by mx2.paymentallianceintl.com (8.14.5/8.13.8) with ESMTP id sBNKNNAI006448 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 23 Dec 2014 15:23:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mikej@mikej.com) Received: from mail.mikej.com (firewall [192.168.6.63]) by firewallnew (8.15.1/8.14.9) with ESMTP id sBNKMxOB095475; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 15:23:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mikej@mikej.com) X-Authentication-Warning: firewallnew: Host firewall [192.168.6.63] claimed to be mail.mikej.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 15:22:59 -0500 From: Michael Jung To: Mark Martinec Subject: nvida Go 7300 working - WAS: Removal of XAA acceleration in X.org, and older NVIDIA GeForce In-Reply-To: References: <9f15ce6462062541cbaf3919ec420315@mailbox.ijs.si> <20141222201853.08bfcc64@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <60b1d359da424d31e6594bda091c63f3@mailbox.ijs.si> Message-ID: X-Sender: mikej@mikej.com User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.0.2 Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 20:29:55 -0000 On 2014-12-23 10:20, Mark Martinec wrote: >> Tijl Coosemans wrote: >>> This card is still supported by x11/nvidia-driver-304 > > Mark Martinec wrote: >> Good suggestion! It does seem to draw screen and scroll >> much faster than NV (although it seems to stall from time >> to time (like unresponsive mouse) on a busy host). >> Will need to test more thoroughly tomorrow when poudriere >> builds will be over. Thanks! > > Actually it did not turn out well. Although nvidia-driver-304 with > a GeForce 7300 GT does not suffer from slow scrolls and slow rendering > of web pages, it frequently stalls (like every minute) and nothing > happens for a dozen of seconds: mouse cannot move a cursor, a cursor > may even temporarily disappear, typing on an xterm or konsole window > is unresponsive. It appears as if a host is terribly busy, even though > it is not (the yesterday's poudriere build was over, and I even > rebooted the host, with nvidia driver loaded by a boot loader > this time). > > After a dozen of seconds or so, things get back at being responsive > again, until the next lockup. Occasionally a window may become > scrambled, but rectifies itself after a while. After trying to > work in this situation for a while, eventually screen turned black, > with a host totally locked up - not even responding to ssh or ping > or ctrl alt F1, or a soft ACPI power off button, so had to be > forcibly rebooted. > > So in the end I had to revert back to the NV driver, which is > now slow, but at least is stable and consistent. I guess we need > to start looking for a new graphics board, quite unfortunate. > > Mark > > FWIW on i386 current r275874 I do no have these lockup issues with nvidia GeForce Go 7300 I did find that though loading the nvidia kernel module in /boot/loader.conf was not enough, I had to create a small xorg.conf simply containing Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" EndSection or GLX instead of NV-GLX would try to be loaded grep GLX Xorg.0.log-without-xorg.conf [ 21401.540] (II) NVIDIA GLX Module 304.125 Mon Dec 1 20:18:39 PST 2014 [ 21401.540] Loading extension GLX [ 21401.782] (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found) grep GLX Xorg.0.log-with-xorg.conf [ 21298.014] (II) NVIDIA GLX Module 304.125 Mon Dec 1 20:18:39 PST 2014 [ 21298.014] Loading extension GLX [ 21298.839] Loading extension NV-GLX [ 21298.931] (II) Initializing extension GLX http://mail.mikej.com/Xorg.0.log-without-xorg.conf http://mail.mikej.com/Xorg.0.log-with-xorg.conf I also have both devd and hald running. --mikej