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kmoore134
06-07-07, 08:57 PM
Hi!

I'm working on the next release of PC-BSD at the moment, and we plan on including the nVidia drivers in the base system. That being said, I've run into a problem on one of my dev boxes.

Since this is an GeForce 8600 GT, I've loaded the latest beta driver, and at first glance it seems to work. However, after you run anything with glx, the screen seems to revert to some sort of software rendering, and any other glx applications refuse to run. The console also shows these errors:

NVRM: Xid (0007:00): 6, PE0003
NVRM: Xid (0007:00): 30, L1 -> L0
NVRM: Xid (0007:00): 6, PE0003
NVRM: Xid (0007:00): 30, L1 -> L0
NVRM: Xid (0007:00): 6, PE0003
NVRM: Xid (0007:00): 30, L1 -> L0
NVRM: Xid (0007:00): 6, PE0003
NVRM: Xid (0007:00): 30, L1 -> L0
NVRM: Xid (0007:00): 6, PE0003
NVRM: Xid (0007:00): 30, L1 -> L0

I've tried rolling custom kernels without AGP, changing settings, disabling compositing, etc, nothing seems to make a difference. Of course this prevents beryl from running, or any other 3d app. We had similar symptoms on a 7300LE card as well, both PCI Express.

Any ideas, or anybody else run into this?
zander
06-07-07, 10:13 PM
Please see http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=92444.
kmoore134
06-08-07, 01:55 PM
Ahh, thank you, thats the exact problem I have here. Do you have a timetable on the new driver release? Are we talking weeks or months? :)
zander
06-08-07, 02:41 PM
I can't give you a definitive answer to this question, but a fixed driver should be available within the next few weeks.
zander
06-08-07, 05:14 PM
Please see: http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_100.14.09.html.
bugmeplz
06-08-07, 09:15 PM
Please see: http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_100.14.09.html.
GREAT!
But now when I start xorg my vesa ttys get messed.
This didn't happen with the last beta driver.

$ dmesg | grep -i nv
nvidia0: <GeForce 8500 GT> port 0xdc00-0xdc7f mem 0xfa000000-0xfaffffff,0xd0000000-0xdfffffff,0xf8000000-0xf9ffffff irq 24 at device 0.0 on pci2
zander
06-09-07, 12:26 AM
Yes, it looks like this is a regression that snuck in between 100.14.06 and 100.14.09; it is understood and should be fixed in future NVIDIA FreeBSD graphics driver releases.
bugmeplz
06-09-07, 07:51 AM
I hope soon...

Thank you.


EDIT:
If I startx then stop it, on the next startx pc hangs totally (not even ssh connection possible).
Now I had to switch back to beta drivers.
kmoore134
06-10-07, 09:46 PM
Great work! Faster than I anticipated, and this problem appears to be fixed, Beryl runs great now :)