| Summary: | Corrupt desktop with AMD64 & nv driver | ||||||
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| Product: | xorg | Reporter: | Joel Dahl <joel> | ||||
| Component: | Driver/nVidia (open) | Assignee: | Aaron Plattner <aplattner> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED FIXED | QA Contact: | |||||
| Severity: | major | ||||||
| Priority: | high | CC: | daniel | ||||
| Version: | 6.8.99.16 | ||||||
| Hardware: | x86 (IA32) | ||||||
| OS: | FreeBSD | ||||||
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| i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||||||
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Description
Joel Dahl
2005-10-18 13:39:43 UTC
I can see the same exact behavior with the same hardware. Oops... didn't realize that "accept bug" doesn't change the assignee... Created attachment 3753 [details]
nv driver gives messy screen in ubuntu amd64 system too with xorg 6.8.2
I'm experiencing (the same) problems with this nv driver in xorg 6.8.2 on two
different OS'es with the following hardware:
AMD64 3000+
EPOX motherboard
MSI Geforce 6200 GPU with nvidia chipset
On Ubuntu Breezy Badger I get the same issues as described above. My screen is
showing the same kind of messy colours (see attachmenet I added)
On FreeBSD 6 (my preferred platform), I get the worse behaviour.
There, the screen just FREEZES and I can't do anything else!! I have to log
onto the machine through another computer in the network with ssh, and when I
issue a top command, I see that the xorg process is eating all the cpu. All
other processes are 0% and the xorg process is 99%. I then have to kill this
process in order to work with the machine again. So here, on FreebSD, I can't
do anything. The triggers seem to be every app I select. If I just login to X
and then do nothing, nothing happens, but if I want to start to work, DISASTER
strikes!! For me it's a severe problem because I can't work with my computer
like this.
However, on Suse 9.3, which I was running a few months ago on the same system,
I had the same problems but there they were SOLVED after I had the chance to
download the NVIDIA drivers through Yast2.
Then I tried to install the NVIDIA driver through the ports system of FreeBSD,
but the port didn't compile because it was for i386 and I have this amd64
platform.
I hope this will give enough background and I'm looking forward to a solution.
Brgds
Robert Gilaard
I can confirm this also opens with 6.8.2 on single processor OpenBSD 3.8 -current amd64 with an Nvidia Geforce 6600 PCI-X. [On multiprocessor the mouse and keyboard lock under X in a matter of seconds, which I imagine is a race condition in the nv driver, but this means that one can't have the system running long enough to see if the screen gets corrupted or not.] There is no discernable usage pattern that causes the behaviour; it tends to happen in less than an hour of light use in general. Robert, Laurence, Please try a newer release candidate of X.org. This problem is known to exist in 6.8.2 but is believed to be fixed in newer releases. I'm running xserver 6.9rc2 for some days now and it seems to be gone. I guess you can close this ticket. I'll add a new comment if future proves me wrong. Thanks Aaron for your time. That's good to hear. Joel, does 6.9rc2 (or rc3) fix the problem for you as well? (In reply to comment #7) > That's good to hear. Joel, does 6.9rc2 (or rc3) fix the problem for you as well? Very late answer, sorry: Yes, 6.9 seems to fix everything, thanks. Fantastic! Marking closed. *** Bug 3768 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** |
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