Date: 05 Dec 2002 08:09:10 +1300 From: James Pole <james.pole@paradise.net.nz> To: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: stability & nvidia drivers? Message-ID: <1039028949.1524.7.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20021204103207.GA213@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <20021204084739.GA66523@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20021204100611.A25453@phear.darq.net> <20021204103207.GA213@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
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On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 23:32, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:06:11AM +0000, Tarquin McDowell wrote:
> > I had a problem on my Gforcce 2MX400 where the first GL app I ran would be 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:
> >
> > "Try lowering your AGP rate in the BIOS or nvidia_os_registry.c. If you want
> > to use nvidia_os_registry.c to do this, find the line that reads
> > { "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."
> >
> > 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!
Humm, I might check that tip out later on. Thanks Tarquin.
- James
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