Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:11:08 +0000 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nVidia driver update today: renders X11 unusable Message-ID: <48BE388C.7050706@zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <20080903063753.GA2120@reindeer.haidundneu23.net> References: <48BD0C5A.4060706@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <g9j493$35f$1@ger.gmane.org> <20080902151456.GA1593@elch.haidundneu23.net> <48BE28F7.7030500@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20080903063753.GA2120@reindeer.haidundneu23.net>
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Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote: > ## O. Hartmann (ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de): > >>> Seems you've got an issue between X and firefox3; at least there's >>> a note in the firefox3 release notes which desribes similar effects: >>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411831 >>> Oh, but by the way, it's not an nvidia/nv issue; I've got the exactly >>> same issues with radeonhd... Luckily, I do not depend that much on >>> web browsers, let alone firefox3. >> The issue of X with firefox is well known and be aured I'm aware of >> that. This issue I complained about is with nearly every client I use >> under X - and that includes Firefox. This 'issue' renders a bunch of >> FreeBSD boxes around here unusable, only those with non-G80 derived >> graphics boards seem to be not infected by the problem, but every box >> with FreeBSD (mostly 7.0/7.1). > > Ah, that explains why I'm having only the usual firefox issue, > obviously my laptop's "Quadro NVS 140M" is not a G80-derived > chip (nautilus, gimp, gnumeric do wirk fine without black bars). > The first mails read as if all nvidia boards were affected. > > Regards, > Christoph > My box at home has an older NV6800GT and I do not have this special issue, but instead I do have another well known issue of box-freezing. This also happens with 'nv'. Since FreeBSD 7.0 this freezing occurs more frequent than in FBSD 6, but in the meanwhile thenv-driver changed several times. It is a horror :-( Regards, Oliver
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