NVidia GeForce 6600 problems

[Alejandro Pulver]

On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 15:06:21 -0300
Alejandro Pulver <alejandro at varnet.biz> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have recently bought a GeForce 6600 video card, and sometimes (not
> very often) I experience the following problem:
> 
> A little after starting X11 (for example when I start downloading
> e-mails), the screen freezes a few seconds, after that the screen
> looks like if widgets (buttons, text, etc.) aren't drawn, and the
> white background of Sylpheed-Claws covers the screen. Then I am
> forced to switch to the 1st console (Ctrl+Alt+F1), which takes around
> 30 seconds, and then kill X11.
> 
> I have FreeBSD 5.4 release, Xorg 6.8.2 and nvidia-driver 1.0.8178.
> 
> I know this problem is with the driver, because I got this kernel
> message:
> 
> NVRM: Xid: 8, Channel 00000000
> NVRM: Xid: 8, Channel 00000020
> 
> And the Xorg log has the following:
> 
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e75c, 0)
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e75c, 0)
> Failed to switch consoles (Invalid argument)
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e834, 0)
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e834, 0)
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 4, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e844, 0)
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 4, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e844, 0)
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e878, 0)
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e878, 0)
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e89c, 0)
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e89c, 0)
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e8ac, 0)
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000e74c, 0x0000e8ac, 0)
> FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2,
> should be 1; fixing.
> 
> If more information is needed just ask (and please tell me how to
> obtain it).
> 
> What can I do? Should I update FreeBSD/Xorg?
> 
> Thanks and Best Regards,
> Ale

I forgot to post the kernel module output when detecting the device:

nvidia0: <GeForce 6600> mem
0xcd000000-0xcdffffff,0xb0000000-0xbfffffff,0xce000000-0xceffffff irq
16 at device 0.0 on pci1