Re: nVidia driver update today: renders X11 unusable
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 02:28:20PM +, O. Hartmann wrote: > How can I selectively 'downgrade' a port? I've never had the nv driver be able to happily (or at all, really) drive my LCD screen, so I've been using the VESA driver. Works pretty OK. So it's not accelerated, but chips and busses are fast these days, and the nv driver isn't doing 3D accel anyway. I saw the nv driver update come up, and was going to give it another go, but maybe I'll wait for a bit... FWIW my system is an Athlon X2 box with NVIDIA motherboard chipset and a cheapo 6600LE graphics card. Anyway, my point is that you should be able to use the VESA driver as a fall-back until the nv driver starts to work (again?) Cheers, Andrew ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: nVidia driver update today: renders X11 unusable
Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote: ## O. Hartmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): My box at home has an older NV6800GT and I do not have this special issue, but instead I do have another well known issue of box-freezing. This also happens with 'nv'. Whoa. Guess I'm lucky, as my nvidia chis is working, albeit quite slowly. My radeonhd-based card at home is way faster, but exhibits the same black-image-issue with firefox. Regards, Christoph The situation is harsh. More than 5 boxes running all the same card type and FreeBSD are simply unusuable since this upgrade and I'm typing blind due to black bars covering typed in sentences. This is in most clients which do font rendering, I guess, but I really don't know. That is clearly a mess and I do not understand why this sh..-driver has gone into ports while the issues with some chips are well known :-( ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: nVidia driver update today: renders X11 unusable
## O. Hartmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > My box at home has an older NV6800GT and I do not have this special > issue, but instead I do have another well known issue of box-freezing. > This also happens with 'nv'. Whoa. Guess I'm lucky, as my nvidia chis is working, albeit quite slowly. My radeonhd-based card at home is way faster, but exhibits the same black-image-issue with firefox. Regards, Christoph -- Spare Space ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: nVidia driver update today: renders X11 unusable
Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote: ## O. Hartmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Seems you've got an issue between X and firefox3; at least there's a note in the firefox3 release notes which desribes similar effects: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411831 Oh, but by the way, it's not an nvidia/nv issue; I've got the exactly same issues with radeonhd... Luckily, I do not depend that much on web browsers, let alone firefox3. The issue of X with firefox is well known and be aured I'm aware of that. This issue I complained about is with nearly every client I use under X - and that includes Firefox. This 'issue' renders a bunch of FreeBSD boxes around here unusable, only those with non-G80 derived graphics boards seem to be not infected by the problem, but every box with FreeBSD (mostly 7.0/7.1). Ah, that explains why I'm having only the usual firefox issue, obviously my laptop's "Quadro NVS 140M" is not a G80-derived chip (nautilus, gimp, gnumeric do wirk fine without black bars). The first mails read as if all nvidia boards were affected. Regards, Christoph My box at home has an older NV6800GT and I do not have this special issue, but instead I do have another well known issue of box-freezing. This also happens with 'nv'. Since FreeBSD 7.0 this freezing occurs more frequent than in FBSD 6, but in the meanwhile thenv-driver changed several times. It is a horror :-( Regards, Oliver ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: nVidia driver update today: renders X11 unusable
## O. Hartmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Seems you've got an issue between X and firefox3; at least there's > > a note in the firefox3 release notes which desribes similar effects: > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411831 > > Oh, but by the way, it's not an nvidia/nv issue; I've got the exactly > > same issues with radeonhd... Luckily, I do not depend that much on > > web browsers, let alone firefox3. > The issue of X with firefox is well known and be aured I'm aware of > that. This issue I complained about is with nearly every client I use > under X - and that includes Firefox. This 'issue' renders a bunch of > FreeBSD boxes around here unusable, only those with non-G80 derived > graphics boards seem to be not infected by the problem, but every box > with FreeBSD (mostly 7.0/7.1). Ah, that explains why I'm having only the usual firefox issue, obviously my laptop's "Quadro NVS 140M" is not a G80-derived chip (nautilus, gimp, gnumeric do wirk fine without black bars). The first mails read as if all nvidia boards were affected. Regards, Christoph -- Spare Space ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: nVidia driver update today: renders X11 unusable
Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote: ## Volodymyr Kostyrko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Just upgraded my ports and installed the new xf86-video-nv driver. Well, loggin out works now without crashing the Xorg server, but most fonts now show up as balck bars - unreadable and ugly :-( Same for me, just some transparent pictures render transparency as black, good example is reader.google.com. This also isn't new to me, some pictures was shown like this in previous driver versions. I was just a bit unsure who was bad at it. Seems you've got an issue between X and firefox3; at least there's a note in the firefox3 release notes which desribes similar effects: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411831 Oh, but by the way, it's not an nvidia/nv issue; I've got the exactly same issues with radeonhd... Luckily, I do not depend that much on web browsers, let alone firefox3. Regards, Christoph The issue of X with firefox is well known and be aured I'm aware of that. This issue I complained about is with nearly every client I use under X - and that includes Firefox. This 'issue' renders a bunch of FreeBSD boxes around here unusable, only those with non-G80 derived graphics boards seem to be not infected by the problem, but every box with FreeBSD (mostly 7.0/7.1). By the way, the Linux boxes, especially the Gentoo-boxes, with also the open source nv-driver DO NOT SHOW this problem. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: nVidia driver update today: renders X11 unusable
## Volodymyr Kostyrko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Just upgraded my ports and installed the new xf86-video-nv driver. Well, > > loggin out works now without crashing the Xorg server, but most fonts > > now show up as balck bars - unreadable and ugly :-( > Same for me, just some transparent pictures render transparency as > black, good example is reader.google.com. This also isn't new to me, > some pictures was shown like this in previous driver versions. I was > just a bit unsure who was bad at it. Seems you've got an issue between X and firefox3; at least there's a note in the firefox3 release notes which desribes similar effects: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411831 Oh, but by the way, it's not an nvidia/nv issue; I've got the exactly same issues with radeonhd... Luckily, I do not depend that much on web browsers, let alone firefox3. Regards, Christoph -- Spare Space ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: nVidia driver update today: renders X11 unusable
On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:28:20 +0200, O. Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andriy Gapon wrote: Question to those having this problem - what kind of nVidia hardware do you have? Is that something that is based on G80 GPU or later (GeForce 8XXX or later)? I see that there is already version 2.1.12 of nv driver (in xorg repository) that is supposed to fix CPUToScreenColorExpandFill function for G80 cards. Well, the problems I have are related to a nv8600GTS based board, this is, as far as I know, a G8X-based graphics board. Nearly 3 months ago some weird behaviour started to be static on the same hardware, Xorg wasn't capable of resetting the terminal is was bound to and presented me funny blinking block graphics on the screen. The Xorg server could oly be revived remotelly by killing the Xorg or within a running session by killing the Xorg for logging off. This problem has gone with today's update, but now my box (nv8600GTS) and the one of a collegue is rendered unusable. My private box runs with a nv6800GT board and there Xorg freezes now very often and renders the box unusable, too. I'm very unpleased about the situation, because it is impossible to do reasonable work. How can I selectively 'downgrade' a port? Mmmm... # whereis portdowngrade portdowngrade: /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portdowngrade Cheers, Ronald. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: nVidia driver update today: renders X11 unusable
Andriy Gapon wrote: Question to those having this problem - what kind of nVidia hardware do you have? Is that something that is based on G80 GPU or later (GeForce 8XXX or later)? I see that there is already version 2.1.12 of nv driver (in xorg repository) that is supposed to fix CPUToScreenColorExpandFill function for G80 cards. Well, the problems I have are related to a nv8600GTS based board, this is, as far as I know, a G8X-based graphics board. Nearly 3 months ago some weird behaviour started to be static on the same hardware, Xorg wasn't capable of resetting the terminal is was bound to and presented me funny blinking block graphics on the screen. The Xorg server could oly be revived remotelly by killing the Xorg or within a running session by killing the Xorg for logging off. This problem has gone with today's update, but now my box (nv8600GTS) and the one of a collegue is rendered unusable. My private box runs with a nv6800GT board and there Xorg freezes now very often and renders the box unusable, too. I'm very unpleased about the situation, because it is impossible to do reasonable work. How can I selectively 'downgrade' a port? Regards, Oliver P.S. Sorry about some weird formatting, I'm typing blind, I see 'censor black bars' all over my screen, even in Thunderbird, Firefox ...). ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: nVidia driver update today: renders X11 unusable
Question to those having this problem - what kind of nVidia hardware do you have? Is that something that is based on G80 GPU or later (GeForce 8XXX or later)? I see that there is already version 2.1.12 of nv driver (in xorg repository) that is supposed to fix CPUToScreenColorExpandFill function for G80 cards. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: nVidia driver update today: renders X11 unusable
Florian Smeets wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: Just upgraded my ports and installed the new xf86-video-nv driver. Well, loggin out works now without crashing the Xorg server, but most fonts now show up as balck bars - unreadable and ugly :-( flz@ has committed an updated version (2.4.2) an hour ago. You could try if that fixes your problems. Cheers, Florian I guess we are already talking about this aupdate because I updated approx. 1 hour ago when the probems took place. Regards, Oliver ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: nVidia driver update today: renders X11 unusable
O. Hartmann wrote: Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: Just upgraded my ports and installed the new xf86-video-nv driver. Well, loggin out works now without crashing the Xorg server, but most fonts now show up as balck bars - unreadable and ugly :-( Same for me, just some transparent pictures render transparency as black, good example is reader.google.com. This also isn't new to me, some pictures was shown like this in previous driver versions. I was just a bit unsure who was bad at it. Well, everything with a transparency, as you stated above, seems to be broken, reading Email is a horror, most web sites are rendered broken in Firefox 3. Luckily, within xterm everthing is ok. I recompiled xorg and my windowmanager, no effect. Even xdm shows up with black bars were normally 'LOGIN:' and 'PASSWORD:' shows up ... Is there a solution? The situation is serious ... 1. portdowngrade 2. Kick upstream, the problem isn't that new, it's just getting sharper. 3. Quick look through Xephyr at KDE4 gives me no quirks in displaying images. It maybe gtk2-only thingy, or it maybe Xephyr already fixes it somehow... dunno... -- Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: nVidia driver update today: renders X11 unusable
Florian Smeets wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: Just upgraded my ports and installed the new xf86-video-nv driver. Well, loggin out works now without crashing the Xorg server, but most fonts now show up as balck bars - unreadable and ugly :-( flz@ has committed an updated version (2.4.2) an hour ago. You could try if that fixes your problems. Gah. Never mind. It was the xf86-video-intel driver which was updated. I think i need a pair of glasses :-( Sorry, Florian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: nVidia driver update today: renders X11 unusable
O. Hartmann wrote: Just upgraded my ports and installed the new xf86-video-nv driver. Well, loggin out works now without crashing the Xorg server, but most fonts now show up as balck bars - unreadable and ugly :-( flz@ has committed an updated version (2.4.2) an hour ago. You could try if that fixes your problems. Cheers, Florian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: nVidia driver update today: renders X11 unusable
O. Hartmann wrote: Well, everything with a transparency, as you stated above, seems to be broken, reading Email is a horror, most web sites are rendered broken in Firefox 3. Luckily, within xterm everthing is ok. I recompiled xorg and my windowmanager, no effect. Even xdm shows up with black bars were normally 'LOGIN:' and 'PASSWORD:' shows up ... Is there a solution? The situation is serious ... Back out of the upgrade, back to the previous version? The current _binary_ package is still the old version, so you could try to force-install that one (e.g. by using "portupgrade -fPP xf86-video-nv-2.1.11") until the port gets fixed, I guess. Haven't tried this (haven't upgraded yet), but it should revert your upgrade and get you up and running for now (but ymmv). ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: nVidia driver update today: renders X11 unusable
Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: Just upgraded my ports and installed the new xf86-video-nv driver. Well, loggin out works now without crashing the Xorg server, but most fonts now show up as balck bars - unreadable and ugly :-( Same for me, just some transparent pictures render transparency as black, good example is reader.google.com. This also isn't new to me, some pictures was shown like this in previous driver versions. I was just a bit unsure who was bad at it. Well, everything with a transparency, as you stated above, seems to be broken, reading Email is a horror, most web sites are rendered broken in Firefox 3. Luckily, within xterm everthing is ok. I recompiled xorg and my windowmanager, no effect. Even xdm shows up with black bars were normally 'LOGIN:' and 'PASSWORD:' shows up ... Is there a solution? The situation is serious ... -- Oliver Hartmann Freie Universitaet Berlin Planetologie und Fernerkundung Malteserstr. 74 - 100/Haus D D-12249 Berlin Tel.: +49 (0) 30 838 70 508 FAX: +49 (0) 30 838 70 539 ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: nVidia driver update today: renders X11 unusable
O. Hartmann wrote: Just upgraded my ports and installed the new xf86-video-nv driver. Well, loggin out works now without crashing the Xorg server, but most fonts now show up as balck bars - unreadable and ugly :-( Same for me, just some transparent pictures render transparency as black, good example is reader.google.com. This also isn't new to me, some pictures was shown like this in previous driver versions. I was just a bit unsure who was bad at it. -- Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
nVidia driver update today: renders X11 unusable
Just upgraded my ports and installed the new xf86-video-nv driver. Well, loggin out works now without crashing the Xorg server, but most fonts now show up as balck bars - unreadable and ugly :-( ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
