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Date:      Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:25:47 -0400
From:      mark <mark@giovannetti.ca>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: KDE 3.5 Crashing
Message-ID:  <469D964B.70906@giovannetti.ca>
In-Reply-To: <002d01c7b178$a8e65e10$a3fd31d2@daisy>
References:  <200706152133.27118.slvhwke@optusnet.com.au>	<20070618012935.S5906@fledge.watson.org> <002d01c7b178$a8e65e10$a3fd31d2@daisy>

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Gemma Fletcher wrote:
>> I apologize in advance if this advice is too rudimentary.
> 
> Rudimentry is good :) I am a BSD noob :D
> 
>> Sounds more like hardware. You did not say how you tested your memory. If
> you
>> did not use Memtest86, get and run that. Also run fsck manually.
> 
> I used Memtest and I have had already run fsck since my poor hard drive was
> compaining bitterly of so many cold restarts. There were some errors that
> were cleaned up - and it seems a bit more stable <as in it can go a few
> hours before freezing>
> 
[snip]

I've had many freezes with FreeBSD 6.2 and nvidia cards on at least
3 separate systems.

The thing that has fixed it on every system has been to
use portdowngrade to reset the nvidia driver to:


nvidia-driver-1.0.8776

(possibly with an extra _4 in the portdowngrade list)

Hope this helps.





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