Re: FreeBSD 7.0 nvidia-driver woes
On Thursday 27 March 2008 16:38:20 Darren Spruell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Derek Ragona > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it worthwhile to contact NVidia with bug reports? Does the FreeBSD > > community amount to much of a blip on their radar? Do we have a direct > > liaison in the community? > > Never hurts to file a bug report. It seems to be in the nvidia older > > driver, I've not heard of the problem with the driver for the current > > cards. > > Four days ago I emailed a problem report to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I haven't heard a peep back. The NVIDIA > support site is structured about like this: > > - If your NVIDIA card shipped with the computer direct from the OEM > manufacturer, it's not our problem. Contact [Dell,HP,Compaq,etc] for > resolution. > - If your NVIDIA card was purchased retail, it's not our problem. > Contact the card manufacturer [Gigabyte,MSI,etc.] for assistance. > > Does anyone know a contact in NVIDIA that would have any concern over > (driver, etc.) issues like this? Go to nvnews.net and moan a _lot_, NVIDIA staff notice things when people moan. Zander is an NVIDIA staffer and FreeBSD-lover on there he will likely help, he's very polite and seems to care for users and keep people reasonably up to date on things where he's allowed to. Hope this helps, Martyn Hare ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 7.0 nvidia-driver woes
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it worthwhile to contact NVidia with bug reports? Does the FreeBSD > community amount to much of a blip on their radar? Do we have a direct > liaison in the community? > Never hurts to file a bug report. It seems to be in the nvidia older > driver, I've not heard of the problem with the driver for the current cards. Four days ago I emailed a problem report to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I haven't heard a peep back. The NVIDIA support site is structured about like this: - If your NVIDIA card shipped with the computer direct from the OEM manufacturer, it's not our problem. Contact [Dell,HP,Compaq,etc] for resolution. - If your NVIDIA card was purchased retail, it's not our problem. Contact the card manufacturer [Gigabyte,MSI,etc.] for assistance. Does anyone know a contact in NVIDIA that would have any concern over (driver, etc.) issues like this? -- Darren Spruell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 7.0 nvidia-driver woes
Darren Spruell wrote: During attempted startup and when using CTRL+ALT+BKSP to kill the server the Xorg process drives CPU usage to 100%: PID USERNAMETHR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 1203 root 1 1180 28168K 23960K CPU1 1 1:21 100.00% Xorg I have exactly the same problem with an ATI card (radeonhd driver) except that the STATE of Xorg is *GIANT and recently I've seen CPU usage figure exceed 400% - yes *four* hundred!! In my search for a solution I've found someone with the same problem with a Matrox card. I've come to the conclusion that Xorg 7.3 is a crock - at least on FreeBSD - since I've never had some many problems under any previous version of Xorg, or XFree86. Is it possible to install Xorg 7.2 on FreeBSD 7.0? FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing. Hmm, I see this too (although I think it is freetype on my box, not misc) - any idea what it means? Regards, Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 7.0 nvidia-driver woes
Darren Spruell writes: > Is it worthwhile to contact NVidia with bug reports? Does the > FreeBSD community amount to much of a blip on their radar? Do we > have a direct liaison in the community? nVidia is perfectly aware their chips aren't supported. It clains to be willing to write - and maintain - drivers ... ... provided FreeBSD makes some chages in the kernel. For more information, google +Christian +nVidia +"John Baldwin" and click on the first result. I am uqualified to opine on how much work these changes would take, beyond this being Really Serious Stuff(tm). If it's really important, there's always starting a fund to pay someone to do it. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 7.0 nvidia-driver woes
At 01:51 PM 3/18/2008, Darren Spruell wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > At 11:58 AM 3/18/2008, Darren Spruell wrote: >> Xorg + nvidia-driver woes... > > I also have a server running FreeBSD 7.0 with xorg 7.3 and an older Nvidia > card. I first had trouble under 6.3 when I upgraded to xorg 7.3 from 7.1. > The nvidia driver seems to cause an interupt storm that paralyzes the > system. It doesn't freeze, but is so busy it is useless. > > It runs OK, not great, using the native xorg 7.3 driver which has no GL > support. Do you (anyone?) know if it is possible to use dual-monitor support in the X.org nv driver? I don't need 3D acceleration necessarily, but I've been of the impression that TwinView is needed for usable dual-monitor capabilities. Someone (I thought) had mentioned earlier that this driver didn't support Xinerama correctly (everything stretched across two monitors). I don't know which drivers support more than one monitor. > I don't have any idea what to do except wait for a new driver or xorg > release that might fix this. I notice it seems to be an unpopular sentiment in the FreeBSD community, but as a user I feel it's worth mentioning it's upsetting being at the mercy of a binary blob kernel driver. I've had pain from 6.3 also, and hoped that a clean installation of 7.0 might have brought some good changes. Not the case, it seems. Is it worthwhile to contact NVidia with bug reports? Does the FreeBSD community amount to much of a blip on their radar? Do we have a direct liaison in the community? Never hurts to file a bug report. It seems to be in the nvidia older driver, I've not heard of the problem with the driver for the current cards. As an aside, you could always replace your video card for a newer one that is fully supported. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 7.0 nvidia-driver woes
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > At 11:58 AM 3/18/2008, Darren Spruell wrote: >> Xorg + nvidia-driver woes... > > I also have a server running FreeBSD 7.0 with xorg 7.3 and an older Nvidia > card. I first had trouble under 6.3 when I upgraded to xorg 7.3 from 7.1. > The nvidia driver seems to cause an interupt storm that paralyzes the > system. It doesn't freeze, but is so busy it is useless. > > It runs OK, not great, using the native xorg 7.3 driver which has no GL > support. Do you (anyone?) know if it is possible to use dual-monitor support in the X.org nv driver? I don't need 3D acceleration necessarily, but I've been of the impression that TwinView is needed for usable dual-monitor capabilities. Someone (I thought) had mentioned earlier that this driver didn't support Xinerama correctly (everything stretched across two monitors). > I don't have any idea what to do except wait for a new driver or xorg > release that might fix this. I notice it seems to be an unpopular sentiment in the FreeBSD community, but as a user I feel it's worth mentioning it's upsetting being at the mercy of a binary blob kernel driver. I've had pain from 6.3 also, and hoped that a clean installation of 7.0 might have brought some good changes. Not the case, it seems. Is it worthwhile to contact NVidia with bug reports? Does the FreeBSD community amount to much of a blip on their radar? Do we have a direct liaison in the community? -- Darren Spruell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 7.0 nvidia-driver woes
At 11:58 AM 3/18/2008, Darren Spruell wrote:
New installation of FreeBSD 7.0 i386, updated to 7.0-STABLE Mon Mar 17
18:04:24 MST 2008.
Attempting to use the nvidia-driver-169.12 package for:
NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI (NV41GL) at PCI:7:0:0
When I start X using the Xorg 'nv' driver it starts successfully. Base
xorg.conf created using 'X -configure' and X started using 'X -config
/path/to/xorg.conf.new'. Using nvidia-xconfig to activate the 'nvidia'
driver results in the X server attempting to start up and choking; the
Nvidia logo appears after a few seconds and remains, and a pixelated
black and green screen remains; the X display never loads correctly.
During attempted startup and when using CTRL+ALT+BKSP to kill the
server the Xorg process drives CPU usage to 100%:
PID USERNAMETHR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND
1203 root 1 1180 28168K 23960K CPU1 1 1:21 100.00% Xorg
Several errors are written to output during the failed X startup:
NVIDIA: failed to set MTRR 0xc000, 0M (write-combining)
NVIDIA: failed to set MTRR 0xc000, 0M (write-combining)
NVIDIA: failed to set MTRR 0xc000, 0M (write-combining)
NVIDIA: failed to set MTRR 0xc000, 0M (write-combining)
NVRM: Xid (0007:00): 1, Channel 0001 Method Data bfef0005
NVIDIA: failed to set MTRR 0xc000, 0M (write-combining)
NVIDIA: failed to set MTRR 0xc000, 0M (write-combining)
$ kldstat
Id Refs AddressSize Name
1 25 0xc040 9119f4 kernel
21 0xc0d12000 8460 linprocfs.ko
33 0xc0d1b000 28678linux.ko
41 0xc0d44000 14324snd_hda.ko
52 0xc0d59000 4a5acsound.ko
61 0xc0da4000 22e40smbfs.ko
73 0xc0dc7000 49b8 libiconv.ko
83 0xc0dcc000 2c70 libmchain.ko
91 0xc0dcf000 4d20 atapicam.ko
101 0xc0dd4000 80dc6c nvidia.ko
111 0xc15e2000 6a2c4acpi.ko
121 0xc72e8000 3000 pflog.ko
131 0xc72eb000 33000pf.ko
$ kldstat -v
Id Refs AddressSize Name
1 25 0xc040 9119f4 kernel
Contains modules:
...
422 hostb/agp_ali
423 hostb/agp_amd
424 hostb/agp_amd64
425 hostb/agp_ati
426 vgapci/agp_i810
427 hostb/agp_intel
428 hostb/agp_nvidia
429 hostb/agp_sis
430 hostb/agp_via
101 0xc0dd4000 80dc6c nvidia.ko
Contains modules:
Id Name
13 pci/nvidia
$ dmesg | grep nvidia
nvidia0: mem
0xdd00-0xddff,0xc000-0xcfff,0xde00-0xdeff irq
16 at device 0.0 on pci7
nvidia0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
nvidia0: [ITHREAD]
$ ls -l /dev/nvidia*
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel0, 43 Mar 17 21:01 /dev/nvidia0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel0, 44 Mar 17 21:01 /dev/nvidiactl
$ ls -d1 /var/db/pkg/{xorg-*,nvidia-*}
/var/db/pkg/nvidia-driver-169.12
/var/db/pkg/nvidia-xconfig-1.0_2
/var/db/pkg/xorg-7.3_1
/var/db/pkg/xorg-apps-7.3
/var/db/pkg/xorg-docs-1.4,1
/var/db/pkg/xorg-drivers-7.3
/var/db/pkg/xorg-fonts-100dpi-7.3
/var/db/pkg/xorg-fonts-7.3
/var/db/pkg/xorg-fonts-75dpi-7.3
/var/db/pkg/xorg-fonts-cyrillic-7.3
/var/db/pkg/xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps-7.3
/var/db/pkg/xorg-fonts-truetype-7.3
/var/db/pkg/xorg-fonts-type1-7.3
/var/db/pkg/xorg-libraries-7.3_1
/var/db/pkg/xorg-protos-7.3
/var/db/pkg/xorg-server-1.4_4,1
Copyright (c) 1992-2008 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Mon Mar 17 18:04:24 MST 2008
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5345 @ 2.33GHz (2327.52-MHz
686-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x6f7 Stepping = 7
Features=0xbfebfbff
Features2=0x4e3bd
AMD Features=0x2010
AMD Features2=0x1
Cores per package: 4
real memory = 3219169280 (3070 MB)
avail memory = 3136241664 (2990 MB)
ACPI APIC Table:
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 8 CPUs
cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0
cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1
cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 2
cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 3
cpu4 (AP): APIC ID: 4
cpu5 (AP): APIC ID: 5
cpu6 (AP): APIC ID: 6
cpu7 (AP): APIC ID: 7
ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 8
ioapic1: Changing APIC ID to 9
ioapic0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard
ioapic1 irqs 24-47 on motherboard
kbd1 at kbdmux0
netsmb_dev: loaded
ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
acpi0: on motherboard
acpi0: [ITHREAD]
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0
acpi_hpet0: iomem 0xfed0-0xfed003ff on acpi0
Timecounter "HPET" frequency 14318180 Hz quality 900
cpu0: on acpi0
est0: on cpu0
est: CPU supports Enhanced Sp
FreeBSD 7.0 nvidia-driver woes
New installation of FreeBSD 7.0 i386, updated to 7.0-STABLE Mon Mar 17
18:04:24 MST 2008.
Attempting to use the nvidia-driver-169.12 package for:
NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI (NV41GL) at PCI:7:0:0
When I start X using the Xorg 'nv' driver it starts successfully. Base
xorg.conf created using 'X -configure' and X started using 'X -config
/path/to/xorg.conf.new'. Using nvidia-xconfig to activate the 'nvidia'
driver results in the X server attempting to start up and choking; the
Nvidia logo appears after a few seconds and remains, and a pixelated
black and green screen remains; the X display never loads correctly.
During attempted startup and when using CTRL+ALT+BKSP to kill the
server the Xorg process drives CPU usage to 100%:
PID USERNAMETHR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND
1203 root 1 1180 28168K 23960K CPU1 1 1:21 100.00% Xorg
Several errors are written to output during the failed X startup:
NVIDIA: failed to set MTRR 0xc000, 0M (write-combining)
NVIDIA: failed to set MTRR 0xc000, 0M (write-combining)
NVIDIA: failed to set MTRR 0xc000, 0M (write-combining)
NVIDIA: failed to set MTRR 0xc000, 0M (write-combining)
NVRM: Xid (0007:00): 1, Channel 0001 Method Data bfef0005
NVIDIA: failed to set MTRR 0xc000, 0M (write-combining)
NVIDIA: failed to set MTRR 0xc000, 0M (write-combining)
$ kldstat
Id Refs AddressSize Name
1 25 0xc040 9119f4 kernel
21 0xc0d12000 8460 linprocfs.ko
33 0xc0d1b000 28678linux.ko
41 0xc0d44000 14324snd_hda.ko
52 0xc0d59000 4a5acsound.ko
61 0xc0da4000 22e40smbfs.ko
73 0xc0dc7000 49b8 libiconv.ko
83 0xc0dcc000 2c70 libmchain.ko
91 0xc0dcf000 4d20 atapicam.ko
101 0xc0dd4000 80dc6c nvidia.ko
111 0xc15e2000 6a2c4acpi.ko
121 0xc72e8000 3000 pflog.ko
131 0xc72eb000 33000pf.ko
$ kldstat -v
Id Refs AddressSize Name
1 25 0xc040 9119f4 kernel
Contains modules:
...
422 hostb/agp_ali
423 hostb/agp_amd
424 hostb/agp_amd64
425 hostb/agp_ati
426 vgapci/agp_i810
427 hostb/agp_intel
428 hostb/agp_nvidia
429 hostb/agp_sis
430 hostb/agp_via
101 0xc0dd4000 80dc6c nvidia.ko
Contains modules:
Id Name
13 pci/nvidia
$ dmesg | grep nvidia
nvidia0: mem
0xdd00-0xddff,0xc000-0xcfff,0xde00-0xdeff irq
16 at device 0.0 on pci7
nvidia0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
nvidia0: [ITHREAD]
$ ls -l /dev/nvidia*
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel0, 43 Mar 17 21:01 /dev/nvidia0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel0, 44 Mar 17 21:01 /dev/nvidiactl
$ ls -d1 /var/db/pkg/{xorg-*,nvidia-*}
/var/db/pkg/nvidia-driver-169.12
/var/db/pkg/nvidia-xconfig-1.0_2
/var/db/pkg/xorg-7.3_1
/var/db/pkg/xorg-apps-7.3
/var/db/pkg/xorg-docs-1.4,1
/var/db/pkg/xorg-drivers-7.3
/var/db/pkg/xorg-fonts-100dpi-7.3
/var/db/pkg/xorg-fonts-7.3
/var/db/pkg/xorg-fonts-75dpi-7.3
/var/db/pkg/xorg-fonts-cyrillic-7.3
/var/db/pkg/xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps-7.3
/var/db/pkg/xorg-fonts-truetype-7.3
/var/db/pkg/xorg-fonts-type1-7.3
/var/db/pkg/xorg-libraries-7.3_1
/var/db/pkg/xorg-protos-7.3
/var/db/pkg/xorg-server-1.4_4,1
Copyright (c) 1992-2008 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Mon Mar 17 18:04:24 MST 2008
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5345 @ 2.33GHz (2327.52-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x6f7 Stepping = 7
Features=0xbfebfbff
Features2=0x4e3bd
AMD Features=0x2010
AMD Features2=0x1
Cores per package: 4
real memory = 3219169280 (3070 MB)
avail memory = 3136241664 (2990 MB)
ACPI APIC Table:
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 8 CPUs
cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0
cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1
cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 2
cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 3
cpu4 (AP): APIC ID: 4
cpu5 (AP): APIC ID: 5
cpu6 (AP): APIC ID: 6
cpu7 (AP): APIC ID: 7
ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 8
ioapic1: Changing APIC ID to 9
ioapic0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard
ioapic1 irqs 24-47 on motherboard
kbd1 at kbdmux0
netsmb_dev: loaded
ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
acpi0: on motherboard
acpi0: [ITHREAD]
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0
acpi_hpet0: iomem 0xfed0-0xfed003ff on acpi0
Timecounter "HPET" frequency 14318180 Hz quality 900
cpu0: on acpi0
est0: on cpu0
est: CPU supports Enhanced Speedstep, but is not recognized.
est: cpu_vendo
