Kirk Strauser
2006-Nov-11 20:53 UTC
nvidia-driver-1.0.8776 was giving me READ_DMA timeouts
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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20061111/1141ad4c/attachment.pgp
> 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 StrauserI 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)?
Kirk Strauser
2006-Nov-12 00:09 UTC
nvidia-driver-1.0.8776 was giving me READ_DMA timeouts
On Saturday 11 November 2006 15:12, Indigo 23 wrote:> 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)?Not a clue. I just figured it out and have been stress testing since then. -- Kirk Strauser -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20061112/deccf38f/attachment.pgp