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Date:      Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:06:53 +0200
From:      Rene Ladan <rene@freebsd.org>
To:        Max Laier <max@laiers.net>
Cc:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freebsd.org, Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/x11/nvidia-driver Makefile distinfo pkg-plist
Message-ID:  <4BD6006D.6020205@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <201004262241.40603.max@laiers.net>
References:  <201004101340.o3ADe78U052886@repoman.freebsd.org> <201004252230.00453.max@love2party.net> <20100426143512.GA57194@FreeBSD.org> <201004262241.40603.max@laiers.net>

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On 26-04-2010 22:41, Max Laier wrote:
> On Monday 26 April 2010 16:35:12 Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> There are quite a few reports.  I did a diff on the glue code and there are a 
> few changes between 22 and 36 that could be the culprit.  I'll investigate 
> further and let you know.  8.0-RELEASE here, by the way - does anyone know if 
> there are (missing) MFCs regarding the cdevpriv API?  That's one of the bigger 
> changes in the glue code.
> 
The drviver seems to run ok here. X.org 7.4 has been running for 27
hours now, without lockups.  I'm using the blank screensaver inside
X.org (first blank the screen, then power down the screen).

This is on an Acer Aspire 7738G with this video card:
(II) Apr 25 20:10:17 NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce GT 240M (GT216) at
PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)

Regards,
Rene
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