Silent reboots in head @r248550 starting xdm with x11/nvidia-driver

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:12:07 -0400
Shawn Webb <lattera at gmail.com> wrote:

[snip lots of stuff]
> > I appear to be experiencing the same issue. I've been following this
> > thread. I have a coredump, but it's over 700mb in size. What would be the
> > best way to get that to you guys? The revision I'm at is r248583 on amd64
> > (6GB RAM) with an NVIDIA Quadro FX 580. Relevant lines from `pciconf -lvb`:
> >
> > vgapci0 at pci0:3:0:0:     class=0x030000 card=0x063a10de chip=0x065910de
> > rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00
> >     vendor     = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
> >     device     = 'G96 [Quadro FX 580]'
> >     class      = display
> >     subclass   = VGA
> >     bar   [10] = type Memory, range 32, base 0xf6000000, size 16777216,
> > enabled
> >     bar   [14] = type Prefetchable Memory, range 64, base 0xc0000000, size
> > 536870912, enabled
> >     bar   [1c] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xf4000000, size 33554432,
> > enabled
> >     bar   [24] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xdc80, size 128, enabled
> >
> >
> Looks like setting both vfs.unmapped_buf_allowed=0 and
> kern.bio_transient_maxcnt=512 worked for me. I'm now up and running
> smoothly.
>

I wonder whether there isn't some dependency on the graphics chip being
used.

I'm running r248589 AMD64 and didn't have to touch a thing to get X
to start.

But I'm using an older, presumably less demanding graphics chip:

vgapci0 at pci0:1:0:0:     class=0x030000 card=0x19051462 chip=0x0a6510de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
    device     = 'GT218 [GeForce 210]'
    class      = display
    subclass   = VGA
    bar   [10] = type Memory, range 32, base 0xfb000000, size 16777216, enabled
    bar   [14] = type Prefetchable Memory, range 64, base 0xc0000000, size 268435456, enabled
    bar   [1c] = type Prefetchable Memory, range 64, base 0xde000000, size 33554432, enabled
    bar   [24] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xef00, size 128, enabled

Above all, bar [14] is only half as large.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn