From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 20 21:05:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A438516A4E1 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 21:05:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.200.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 462E443D45 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 21:05:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from gimpy (c-24-118-173-219.hsd1.mn.comcast.net[24.118.173.219]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2006072021052401200023k5e>; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 21:05:28 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, nealie@kobudo.homeunix.net Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:05:23 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <1153396289.823.16.camel@server.home> In-Reply-To: <1153396289.823.16.camel@server.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607201605.23862.josh@tcbug.org> Cc: Subject: Re: NVIDIA 6600GT Freeze X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 21:05:29 -0000 On Thursday 20 July 2006 06:51, Nealie wrote: > I have a problem with my system freezing when using an NVIDIA video > card using the nvidia-driver port. All seems to work fine for a > while but then the system freezes and won't even reply to a ping. > This can happen regardless of whether I use openGL or not. > > Everything works fine using the "nv" driver, so it doesn't seem to > be a hardware problem. > > My setup is as follows: > > uname: FreeBSD server.home 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Wed > Jul 19 11:19:16 CEST 2006 > root@server.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SERVER i386 > > AGP NVIDIA 6600GT installed on an MSI K8T Neo-F V2.09 motherboard > (VIA K8T800 Pro chipset) with an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ CPU. > > The NVIDIA driver is installed as per the instructions, with agp > and dri removed from the kernel in order to use the NVIDIA agp > interface, even though the sysctl settings suggest otherwise. > > If anyone has any ideas about this problem I'd be very grateful. > This probably isn't very helpful but I have nearly the exact same setup and it works fine. The only differences I see is that I'm running 6.1-RELEASE and my motherboard is an asus based on the K8T800 chipset. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel