I have a problem with my system freezing when using an NVIDIA video card using the nvidia-driver port. All seems to work fine for a while but then the system freezes and won't even reply to a ping. This can happen regardless of whether I use openGL or not. Everything works fine using the "nv" driver, so it doesn't seem to be a hardware problem. My setup is as follows: uname: FreeBSD server.home 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Wed Jul 19 11:19:16 CEST 2006 root@server.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SERVER i386 AGP NVIDIA 6600GT installed on an MSI K8T Neo-F V2.09 motherboard (VIA K8T800 Pro chipset) with an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ CPU. The NVIDIA driver is installed as per the instructions, with agp and dri removed from the kernel in order to use the NVIDIA agp interface, even though the sysctl settings suggest otherwise. If anyone has any ideas about this problem I'd be very grateful.
On Thursday 20 July 2006 06:51, Nealie wrote:> I have a problem with my system freezing when using an NVIDIA video > card using the nvidia-driver port. All seems to work fine for a > while but then the system freezes and won't even reply to a ping. > This can happen regardless of whether I use openGL or not. > > Everything works fine using the "nv" driver, so it doesn't seem to > be a hardware problem. > > My setup is as follows: > > uname: FreeBSD server.home 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Wed > Jul 19 11:19:16 CEST 2006 > root@server.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SERVER i386 > > AGP NVIDIA 6600GT installed on an MSI K8T Neo-F V2.09 motherboard > (VIA K8T800 Pro chipset) with an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ CPU. > > The NVIDIA driver is installed as per the instructions, with agp > and dri removed from the kernel in order to use the NVIDIA agp > interface, even though the sysctl settings suggest otherwise. > > If anyone has any ideas about this problem I'd be very grateful. >This probably isn't very helpful but I have nearly the exact same setup and it works fine. The only differences I see is that I'm running 6.1-RELEASE and my motherboard is an asus based on the K8T800 chipset. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel
On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 13:51 +0200, Nealie wrote:> I have a problem with my system freezing when using an NVIDIA video card > using the nvidia-driver port. All seems to work fine for a while but > then the system freezes and won't even reply to a ping. This can happen > regardless of whether I use openGL or not. > > Everything works fine using the "nv" driver, so it doesn't seem to be a > hardware problem. > > My setup is as follows: > > uname: FreeBSD server.home 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Wed Jul 19 > 11:19:16 CEST 2006 root@server.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SERVER > i386 > > AGP NVIDIA 6600GT installed on an MSI K8T Neo-F V2.09 motherboard (VIA > K8T800 Pro chipset) with an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ CPU. > > The NVIDIA driver is installed as per the instructions, with agp and dri > removed from the kernel in order to use the NVIDIA agp interface, even > though the sysctl settings suggest otherwise. > > If anyone has any ideas about this problem I'd be very grateful.Just a quick reply to myself: The problem seems to be that the the IRQs of the motherboards on board network interface and the AGP card are the same. This works for a while but then something goes horribly wrong and all comes to a halt. Why the IRQ is shared I have no idea as there are nine free IRQs. Unfortunately there is no way to change either of the IRQs in the BIOS, so I've had to resort to replacing the on board gigagit network interface with an add on 100Mb interface. All seems to be working properly now with the NVIDIA driver.