nv problems on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE for AMD64

[Chris Radlinski]

Thanks for the reply.

I am able to get a stack trace.  The call to NVSync() that locks the
system comes from somewhere in libxaa.so.  The particular function
varies but it's always from XAA.  I'm willing to do whatever I can to
help fix this bug.  I can reliably reproduce it; I just don't know how
to fix it.

I do have a workaround.  If I set "Options ShadowFB" in xorg.conf, I can
run the nv driver at reasonable speeds and without problems.  I don't
know what I'm giving up by doing that but it seems to work OK.

Please let me know what I can do to help fix this.

Chris

On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 11:25, Matthias Hopf wrote:

> On Jan 11, 07 16:42:21 -0600, Chris Radlinski wrote:
> > I'm not sure what that means.  Do I have a bad card?
> 
> Possibly. Often cards hang here if they are broken.
> 
> > I'm going to add another condition to the while loop so it doesn't loop
> > indefinitely and see what happens.
> 
> Won't help. The gfx engine is stalled, and won't wake up again.
> 
> The only thing to debug would be to trace the commands, and find out
> which one was the last the gfx engine was able to process. Don't know
> how to do that correctly, though.
> 
> Matthias
> 
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