Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 11:32:07 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: Tarquin McDowell <tarquin@fishbowl.pentax.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: stability & nvidia drivers? Message-ID: <20021204103207.GA213@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20021204100611.A25453@phear.darq.net> References: <20021204084739.GA66523@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20021204100611.A25453@phear.darq.net>
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On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:06:11AM +0000, Tarquin McDowell wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 09:47:39AM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> > Anyone getting any better results? Is there something I can do to fix
> > this? The drivers are of no use to me if they are this unreliable.
> > More info available on request, of course.
>=20
> I had a problem on my Gforcce 2MX400 where the first GL app I ran would b=
e ok,
> but running any GL apps after that would cause a core dump (and sometimes=
a
> hard lock of the machine). A problem I noticed, though, was that
> sysctl -a | grep nv was showing a selected AGP rate of x4. I was able to
> change that value to x1 by making a change as documented on the Nvidia
> FreeBSD FAQ page:
>=20
> "Try lowering your AGP rate in the BIOS or nvidia_os_registry.c. If you w=
ant
> to use nvidia_os_registry.c to do this, find the line that reads=20
> { "ReqAGPRate", "Force AGP Rate", 4, 0 }, and change the last 0 to 1. Now=
you
> will be able to set the sysctl hw.nvidia.registry.ReqAGPRate to the value=
of
> the desired AGP rate. You will of course need to rebuild/reinstall/reload=
the
> kernel driver before attempting to set the sysctl."
>=20
> This fixed all my problems -- the driver seems to be very stable now.
Yes, that's it! Thanks for the pointer, this solved all the coredumps!
a happy
--Stijn
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