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Date:      Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:35:12 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
Cc:        cvs-ports@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/x11/nvidia-driver Makefile distinfo pkg-plist
Message-ID:  <20100426143512.GA57194@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <201004252230.00453.max@love2party.net>
References:  <201004101340.o3ADe78U052886@repoman.freebsd.org> <201004252017.12747.max@love2party.net> <4BD4A421.7040101@FreeBSD.org> <201004252230.00453.max@love2party.net>

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On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:30:00PM +0200, Max Laier wrote:
> On Sunday 25 April 2010 22:20:49 Doug Barton wrote:
> > On 04/25/10 11:17, Max Laier wrote:
> > > On Saturday 10 April 2010 15:40:07 Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > >> danfe       2010-04-10 13:40:07 UTC
> > >>
> > >>   FreeBSD ports repository
> > >>
> > >>   Modified files:
> > >>     x11/nvidia-driver    Makefile distinfo pkg-plist
> > >>   Log:
> > >>   - Update nVidia BETA drivers to version 195.36.15
> > >
> > > might be me, but it looks like the BETA driver has been more stable.  I
> > > just downgraded back to BETA and now X doesn't hang anymore after ~30min.
> > 
> > I had to downgrade back to 195.22. When running the latest version I had
> > freezes similar to what Max described. If it ran successfully for any
> > length of time it would lock up as soon as xscreensaver kicked in.
> 
> not related to xscreensaver in my case, I don't think.  It was locking up 
> while playing video in xine which - afaik - disables the screensaver.  As 
> always, X lock ups are hard to track down unfortunately.  On the plus side,
> it doesn't seem to be a hard lock up - i.e. the power button would still
> get me to a clean shutdown eventually, but interrupts didn't fire anymore
> (at least the network stops working).  I can't attach a serial console at
> the moment to get into DDB.  Will try to, tomorrow.

Please do.  I am still not able to reproduce it here on Februarish
-CURRENT/amd64 with GFX260.  You might also want to lurk on nVidia
forums at http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=47 to see
if someone has similar issues.

./danfe



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