From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 11 21:18:14 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 CA0E916A57A for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 21:18:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from indigo23@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57CC343D4C for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 21:18:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from indigo23@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id i11so502397nzh for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 13:18:13 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=q7g1L5SEBnNFM3HHdmLse4vR5B2WQ8Jyxqu6UWhVn/q5yGzV2QNadDWgNQVippj6d2GFBaG16mNsqmR8T6/QPpVV8IdSAUL6mqAitUQCbW92KSb3RKnSazZT0PaeDq+ZCdhj5DFqXhHOMLP/MSs1Pl1a5/J7j1/0OKPiyGeMnm8= Received: by 10.35.80.20 with SMTP id h20mr6692558pyl.1163279524340; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 13:12:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.35.89.7 with HTTP; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 13:12:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <6f50eac40611111312t43c792bdlb03af9a1435f9c4d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:12:04 -0500 From: "Indigo 23" To: kirk@strauser.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: nvidia-driver-1.0.8776 was giving me READ_DMA timeouts 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: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 21:18:14 -0000 > I upgraded my 6.1-STABLE box a week or so ago, and numerous ports at the same > time. For the last week, I've had all sorts of random reboots on a normally > rock solid system. Yesterday I noticed that whenever I was looking at a > console, the machine was stable as usual, but when X was visible, the ATA > drives would throw spurious READ_DMA timeouts. I downgraded from > nvidia-driver-1.0.8776 to .8774 and the problems have completely disappeared > and the system is back to normal. > > I know it sounds silly and I can't explain it, but the most recent NVidia > drivers made my system feel as stable as Windows ME on an overclocked Cyrix. > I'm posting this here mainly for the benefit of anyone else who might be > having similar problems. > -- > Kirk Strauser I also had similar problems with the latest nvidia drivers on FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE. My box used to run rock solid, then after the update to .8776, it started locking up under heavy loads when X was running. Any idea if this is a known bug in the drivers (i.e. nvidia is aware of the problem)?