Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 13:07:42 +0300 From: Igor Roboul <igorr@sysadm.stc> To: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nVidia drivers revisited Message-ID: <20021210100742.GA25124@sysadm.stc> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20021209125400.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <3DF2DDD1.2010603@melbpc.org.au> <XFMail.20021209125400.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:54:00PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > This just means the nvidia driver is buggy and could result in corrupted > data and kernel crashes eventually. However, the driver is only "buggy" > on 5.0 because 5.0 has different locking requirements than 4.x and the > driver was written for 4.x. Thus, it's not nvidia's fault per se, but > the driver does need updating before it will be safe on 5.x. I have no problems with nvidia driver. OpenGL apps (openuniverse) work good. No crashes, no panics. I don't load "dri" & "drm" XFree modules. Also I use nvidia driver's AGP support (not agp.ko). Kernel sources from end of November. No INVARIANTS. Intel i815 chipset. -- Igor Roboul, System administrator at Speech Technology Center http://www.speechpro.com http://www.speechpro.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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