nvidia-driver-295.49 is highly unstable

[Pegasus Mc Cleaft]

On 06/04/12 03:12, Chris wrote:
> On Sun, 27 May 2012 20:50:59 -0300
> Mario Lobo<lobo at bsd.com.br>  wrote:
>
>> On Sunday 27 May 2012 14:05:16 Yuri wrote:
>>> On 05/27/2012 10:01, David Wolfskill wrote:
>>>> So, at least in my case, I respectfully disagree with the
>>>> assessment in the Subject.
>>> i386 is one difference (I use amd64)
>>> FX 770M is another difference (I use 9400GT)
>>> I also have everything updated with the similar portmaster command.
>>>
>>> Yuri
>> I use 8-STABLE amd64 with 295.40/9800GT and been using it since I can
>> remember. Except for some quircks with early VirtualBox versions, I
>> have NEVER had a problem with ANY version of the driver I've used.
>>
> FWIW
>
> uname -a
> FreeBSD udns 8.3-STABLE FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE #2: Sun May 20 22:25:10 PDT 2012
> root at udns:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/AMD64  amd64
>
> Xorg.0.log
> NVIDIA GPU GeForce 7800 GT (G70)
> PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 10de:0092:3842:c518 NVIDIA Corporation G70 [GeForce 7800 GT] rev 161
> NVIDIA dlloader X Driver  295.40  Thu Apr  5 21:27:46 PDT 2012
>
> Has always worked w/o any issues -- ever.
>
>
Hi Everyone,

     You know what it could be? I just had to rebuild my user-land 
because of KDE updates and I use variables in my make.conf to switch 
between base GCC and CLANG. I forgot to switch back to base gcc before 
compiling the nvidia driver. I installed the driver and rebooted, xorg 
came up but as soon as I logged in, kwin crashed, then the machine 
kernel panicked and rebooted. I rebooted and crashed a few more times 
before realizing what I had done. I recompiled the driver with GCC and 
the machine has been rock-stable with the nvidia driver.

     Maybe the OP has done the same thing and not realized it?

Ta
Peg