Re: NVidia driver stability?
On 2003-07-12 21:22 +, Will Saxon wrote: Well I have to say that about 30min after I wrote in originally, I started having problems. X locked up, but I could switch around to different vty's and also ctrl-alt-bksp out of X. However, when I tried to restart X my machine locked up entirely. I am wondering though if it is all the nvidia driver's fault - while my machine has been stable through installation of the nvidia driver it is now being screwy even after removal of the driver. It's basically locking hard after about 5-10 minutes every time I use it, and sometimes I cannot even log in. I guess I don't know what to think. -Will If you have a kernel.good around boot that, and try fiddling around. There are a few sysctls you can play with (trying to use the NVIDIA AGP driver may be a good idea too). I have had a few really odd bug reports, but none that match this type of behaviour. -- Munish Chopra ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NVidia driver stability?
That may have done it. Now that I recompiled nvidia-driver only WITH_NVIDIA_HACKS, doing glxinfo several times no longer wreaks havoc. Since something seems to be screwy with my network driver (rtl8139) when the kernel is compiled without optimizations, I recompiled with them and so far all is well. At the moment, I have my AGP rate knocked down from 4x to 2x in BIOS. If all continues to go well, I'll bump it back up and report what I find. E From: Munish Chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2003-07-12 14:46 +, Evan Dower wrote: After following all the instructions at http://www.soulwax.net/nvidia/faq.shtml _very_ carefully and compiling nvidia-driver WITH_FREEBSD_AGP, WITH_NVIDIA_HACKS, and with FORCE_AGP_RATE, my system was dramatically slower and substantially _less_ stable. (I had to switch to another computer to write this email). Interestingly, whenever I compile the kernel without optimizations, network activity becomes _very_ slow. E aka Evan Dower Undergraduate, Computer Science University of Washington Did you try using the NVIDIA AGP interface? The majority of mail I get indicates that the NVIDIA AGP stuff works better than the FreeBSD one. I'm not sure about your network problems, perhaps you should look at the driver for clues. -- Munish Chopra ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NVidia driver stability?
On 2003-07-13 01:47 +, Evan Dower wrote: That may have done it. Now that I recompiled nvidia-driver only WITH_NVIDIA_HACKS, doing glxinfo several times no longer wreaks havoc. Since something seems to be screwy with my network driver (rtl8139) when the kernel is compiled without optimizations, I recompiled with them and so far all is well. At the moment, I have my AGP rate knocked down from 4x to 2x in BIOS. If all continues to go well, I'll bump it back up and report what I find. E Bill Paul recently checked in some changes to the rtl8139 code, you might want to check the CVS logs for that. Bumping up the AGP rate should be safe in 99% of cases. Good luck. -- Munish Chopra ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: NVidia driver stability?
I just installed these drivers on my machine, which uses a Geforce4 Ti4200. I had 10 glxgears processes running in the background and was running glxinfo over and over, and while the glxgears processes were not really spinning very fast nothing crashed or anything like that. Machine is running a June 27 -current with Xfree86 4.3.0. I compiled the nvidia-driver port with -DWITH_FREEBSD_AGP and -DWITH_NVIDIA_HACKS. -Will ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: NVidia driver stability?
After following all the instructions at http://www.soulwax.net/nvidia/faq.shtml _very_ carefully and compiling nvidia-driver WITH_FREEBSD_AGP, WITH_NVIDIA_HACKS, and with FORCE_AGP_RATE, my system was dramatically slower and substantially _less_ stable. (I had to switch to another computer to write this email). Interestingly, whenever I compile the kernel without optimizations, network activity becomes _very_ slow. E aka Evan Dower Undergraduate, Computer Science University of Washington From: Will Saxon [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just installed these drivers on my machine, which uses a Geforce4 Ti4200. I had 10 glxgears processes running in the background and was running glxinfo over and over, and while the glxgears processes were not really spinning very fast nothing crashed or anything like that. Machine is running a June 27 -current with Xfree86 4.3.0. I compiled the nvidia-driver port with -DWITH_FREEBSD_AGP and -DWITH_NVIDIA_HACKS. -Will ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NVidia driver stability?
On 2003-07-12 14:46 +, Evan Dower wrote: After following all the instructions at http://www.soulwax.net/nvidia/faq.shtml _very_ carefully and compiling nvidia-driver WITH_FREEBSD_AGP, WITH_NVIDIA_HACKS, and with FORCE_AGP_RATE, my system was dramatically slower and substantially _less_ stable. (I had to switch to another computer to write this email). Interestingly, whenever I compile the kernel without optimizations, network activity becomes _very_ slow. E aka Evan Dower Undergraduate, Computer Science University of Washington Did you try using the NVIDIA AGP interface? The majority of mail I get indicates that the NVIDIA AGP stuff works better than the FreeBSD one. I'm not sure about your network problems, perhaps you should look at the driver for clues. -- Munish Chopra ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NVidia driver stability?
Evan Dower wrote: After following all the instructions at http://www.soulwax.net/nvidia/faq.shtml _very_ carefully and compiling nvidia-driver WITH_FREEBSD_AGP, WITH_NVIDIA_HACKS, and with FORCE_AGP_RATE, my system was dramatically slower and substantially _less_ stable. (I had to switch to another computer to write this email). Interestingly, whenever I compile the kernel without optimizations, network activity becomes _very_ slow. E aka Evan Dower Undergraduate, Computer Science University of Washington From: Will Saxon [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just installed these drivers on my machine, which uses a Geforce4 Ti4200. I had 10 glxgears processes running in the background and was running glxinfo over and over, and while the glxgears processes were not really spinning very fast nothing crashed or anything like that. Machine is running a June 27 -current with Xfree86 4.3.0. I compiled the nvidia-driver port with -DWITH_FREEBSD_AGP and -DWITH_NVIDIA_HACKS. -Will ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am running a Geforce 4 on freebsd 5.1 with the freebsd drivers @ nvidia's site. they just released new drivers not long ago. Simply d/l it, untar it and run make setupmodify the xf86config and reboot. takes about 5 min. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: NVidia driver stability?
Well I have to say that about 30min after I wrote in originally, I started having problems. X locked up, but I could switch around to different vty's and also ctrl-alt-bksp out of X. However, when I tried to restart X my machine locked up entirely. I am wondering though if it is all the nvidia driver's fault - while my machine has been stable through installation of the nvidia driver it is now being screwy even after removal of the driver. It's basically locking hard after about 5-10 minutes every time I use it, and sometimes I cannot even log in. I guess I don't know what to think. -Will -Original Message- From: Munish Chopra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 5:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NVidia driver stability? On 2003-07-12 14:46 +, Evan Dower wrote: After following all the instructions at http://www.soulwax.net/nvidia/faq.shtml _very_ carefully and compiling nvidia-driver WITH_FREEBSD_AGP, WITH_NVIDIA_HACKS, and with FORCE_AGP_RATE, my system was dramatically slower and substantially _less_ stable. (I had to switch to another computer to write this email). Interestingly, whenever I compile the kernel without optimizations, network activity becomes _very_ slow. E aka Evan Dower Undergraduate, Computer Science University of Washington Did you try using the NVIDIA AGP interface? The majority of mail I get indicates that the NVIDIA AGP stuff works better than the FreeBSD one. I'm not sure about your network problems, perhaps you should look at the driver for clues. -- Munish Chopra ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
