Xorg 6.9.0 freezes on AMD64 system with nvidia 6200 GPU

[Robert Gilaard]

> > Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 03:25:49 -0800 (PST)
> From: Robert Gilaard <rgilaard at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Xorg freezes on AMD64 system with nvidia
> 6200 GPU
> To: xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm having troubles with Xorg 6.9.0 running on a
> AMD64
> system with a nvidia 6200 GPU. I am running FreeBSD
> 6.0 as my OS.
> 
> The nv driver is loaded and used. However, the
> moment
> I log into that machine and start working with the
> graphical apps on Gnome (have seen this freezing on
> KDE too), after a while I can't use the desktop any
> more. 
> I have to log in through ssh from another machine,
> and
> when I do a top, I see this:
> 
> last pid:  1065;  load averages:  0.78,  0.37,  0.16
> 
> up 0+00:03:28    11:50:58
> 74 processes:  2 running, 72 sleeping
> 
> Mem: 122M Active, 56M Inact, 82M Wired, 1260K Cache,
> 89M Buf, 709M Free
> Swap: 3072M Total, 3072M Free
> 
> 
>   PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  
> 
> TIME   WCPU COMMAND
>   657 root          1 139    0   130M 30420K RUN 
> 0:55 92.48% Xorg

>  1053 rgilaard      4  20    0   189M 57404K kserel 
> 
> 0:02  0.00% firefox-bin
>   994 rgilaard      4  20    0   137M 28872K kserel 
> 
> 0:01  0.00% nautilus
>   736 rgilaard      1  76    0 27488K 13264K select 
> 
> 0:01  0.00% gconfd-2
>   992 rgilaard      4  20    0   104M 24864K kserel 
> 
> 0:01  0.00% gnome-panel
>   855 rgilaard      4  20    0 97528K 19748K kserel 
> 
> 0:00  0.00% gnome-setting
>   721 rgilaard      1  76    0 79600K 16296K select 
> 
> 0:00  0.00% gnome-session
>  1026 rgilaard      4  20    0 89520K 19808K kserel 
> 
> 0:00  0.00% gnome-termina
>   998 rgilaard      1  76    0 92328K 17756K select 
> 
> 0:00  0.00% wnck-applet
>   987 rgilaard      1  76    0 55688K 11728K select 
> 
> 0:00  0.00% metacity
> 
> As you can see the xorg process uses a lot of my cpu
> and it totally freezes. 
> 
> The only way for me to work reliable on that machine
> is by logging in from another machine with ssh -Y
> and
> then start using the graphical apps from there. But
> I
> really want to use this machine as a normal desktop
> so
> this is not the preffered way.
> 
> Can someone help me with this? What should I do?
> Nvidia doesn't provide drivers for amd64 based
> systems
> on freebsd, so I can't go that route.
> Thanks in advanced.
> 
> My xorg.conf file looks like:
> Section "ServerLayout"
> 	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
> 	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
> 	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> 	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Files"
> 	RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
> 	ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
> 	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
> 	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
> 	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
> 	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
> 	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
> 	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
> 	FontPath     "/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Module"
> 	Load  "extmod"
> 	Load  "glx"
> 	Load  "dri"
> 	Load  "dbe"
> 	Load  "record"
> 	Load  "xtrap"
> 	Load  "type1"
> 	Load  "freetype"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> 	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
> 	Driver      "kbd"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> 	Identifier  "Mouse0"
> 	Driver      "mouse"
> 	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
> 	Option	    "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Monitor"
> 	#DisplaySize	  340   270	# mm
> 	Identifier   "Monitor0"
> 	VendorName   "HWP"
> 	ModelName    "hp L1720"
>  ### Uncomment if you don't want to default to DDC:
> 	HorizSync    31.0 - 80.0
> 	VertRefresh  56.0 - 75.0
> 	Option	    "DPMS"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
>         ### Available Driver options are:-
>         ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float,
> <bool>:
> "True"/"False",
>         ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f>
> Hz/kHz/MHz"
>         ### [arg]: arg optional
>         #Option     "SWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "HWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "NoAccel"            	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "ShadowFB"           	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "UseFBDev"           	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "Rotate"             	# [<str>]
>         #Option     "VideoKey"           	# <i>
>         #Option     "FlatPanel"          	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "FPDither"           	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "CrtcNumber"         	# <i>
>         #Option     "FPScale"            	# [<bool>]
>         #Option     "FPTweak"            	# <i>
> 	Identifier  "Card0"
> 	Driver      "nv"
> 	VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
> 	BoardName   "Unknown Board"
> 	BusID       "PCI:5:0:0"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
> 	Identifier "Screen0"
> 	Device     "Card0"
> 	Monitor    "Monitor0"
> 	DefaultDepth 24
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Viewport   0 0
> 		Depth     1
> 	EndSubSection
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Viewport   0 0
> 		Depth     4
> 	EndSubSection
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Viewport   0 0
> 		Depth     8
> 	EndSubSection
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Viewport   0 0
> 		Depth     15
> 	EndSubSection
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Viewport   0 0
> 		Depth     16
> 	EndSubSection
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Viewport   0 0
> 		Depth     24
> 		Modes 	"1280x1024" "1024x768"
> 	EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> 
> 
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