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Date:      Sat, 4 Jun 2016 14:52:26 +0200
From:      "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
To:        FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   x11/nvidia-driver and CURRENT: update results in full fan blow on MSI GTX 960 Gaming 4G
Message-ID:  <20160604145226.57dd078e.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>

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Three months ago I purchased a new GPU to replace a non-UEFI capable GTX560=
 Ti (MSI). The
choice was the MSI GTX 960 Gaming 4G. Apart from the part, that this GPU do=
esn't show the
performance boost on FreeBSD CURRENT, even with the most recent BLOB from n=
Vidia, 367.18,
I realized that after the update from FreeBSD 11-CURRENT r300830 to r300956=
 (I guess,
Forgot the exact revision number, but it was > 300950), the fans of that sp=
ecific GPU
blow at full speed when xdm/Xorg server has been started. This is annoying,=
 since the
noise is incredible.

I tried to recompile the whole ports xorg relies on via

portmaster -df xorg xdm

hoping, that some sort of bug or API incompatibility could have caused the =
problems, but
that wasn't at all the case.

I run now r301300 and the "problem" is still present.

The environmental conditions did not change - not in a way that the full sp=
eed fan of the
GPU could be explained by raised temperatures of the environment. I tried t=
o find via
Google some help, but it seems that I'm the first and only one having this =
problem,
especially with FreeBSD and this type of GPU. I also tried the official sup=
ported
x11/nvidia-driver (346.96 and the proposed 364.19) with no success.

Below, You will find some data I picked up from the kernel environment (if =
there are
other ways, please tell me) and the logfile of Xorg/X server.


[...]
hw.nvidia.gpus.0.type: PCIe
hw.nvidia.gpus.0.uuid: GPU-85fde95a-7974-9962-f1a4-d7c164413929
hw.nvidia.gpus.0.vbios: 84.06.26.00.21
hw.nvidia.gpus.0.irq: 270
hw.nvidia.gpus.0.model: GeForce GTX 960
hw.nvidia.registry.dwords:=20
hw.nvidia.registry.TCEBypassMode: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.MemoryPoolSize: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.EnablePCIeGen3: 1
hw.nvidia.registry.CheckPCIConfigSpace: 4294967295
hw.nvidia.registry.RegisterForACPIEvents: 1
hw.nvidia.registry.MapRegistersEarly: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableMSI: 1
hw.nvidia.registry.UsePageAttributeTable: 4294967295
hw.nvidia.registry.InitializeSystemMemoryAllocations: 1
hw.nvidia.registry.UpdateMemoryTypes: 4294967295
hw.nvidia.registry.DeviceFileMode: 438
hw.nvidia.registry.DeviceFileGID: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.DeviceFileUID: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.ModifyDeviceFiles: 1
hw.nvidia.registry.RmLogonRC: 1
hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295
hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295
hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  367.18  Mon May 16 18:=
13:16 PDT 2016
dev.nvidia.0.%parent: vgapci0
dev.nvidia.0.%pnpinfo:=20
dev.nvidia.0.%location:=20
dev.nvidia.0.%driver: nvidia
dev.nvidia.0.%desc: GeForce GTX 960
dev.nvidia.%parent:=20


Hopefully someone can give some hints what could trigger the problem ...

Thanks in advance and please CC me (due to not subscribing this list).

Kind regards,

Oliver

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