(In short) The system is: 8.0-RELEASE-p2/amd64, NVIDIA GT 240, Intel Core i5, 4GB RAM. The problem is: lockups with `x11/nvidia-driver'.
As soon as the famous nvidia driver with amd64 support was out, I've upgraded from 7.2-RELEASE/i386 to 8.0-RELEASE/amd64. I'd been using the system happily until... until I don't know what but suddenly (yesterday) it produced a kernel panic when shutting down (unfortunately no dump device was configured). And then still worse: on any switching from X to console or shutting down X, the system just locks up, with a black screen, without any messages to log or wherever. While in X, it usually works, but it's impossible to shut down the system cleanly which results in dirty fs and lost files. First I thought this issue to be related to virtualbox kernel modules, I removed them but no success, as well nothing improved after replacing the video card by another nvidia on a different chipset. It's all happening on my work PC, so I unluckily don't have lots of time to test, and I temporarily switched to `nouveau' which is slow and doesn't support chip clock management, but at least doesn't crash. The current version of `nv' driver doesn't yet support my card.
The strangest thing is that all worked for a really long time and there's no obvious cause of the sudden failure. ( Didn't install or update anything major )
Thanks in advance for any comments.
As soon as the famous nvidia driver with amd64 support was out, I've upgraded from 7.2-RELEASE/i386 to 8.0-RELEASE/amd64. I'd been using the system happily until... until I don't know what but suddenly (yesterday) it produced a kernel panic when shutting down (unfortunately no dump device was configured). And then still worse: on any switching from X to console or shutting down X, the system just locks up, with a black screen, without any messages to log or wherever. While in X, it usually works, but it's impossible to shut down the system cleanly which results in dirty fs and lost files. First I thought this issue to be related to virtualbox kernel modules, I removed them but no success, as well nothing improved after replacing the video card by another nvidia on a different chipset. It's all happening on my work PC, so I unluckily don't have lots of time to test, and I temporarily switched to `nouveau' which is slow and doesn't support chip clock management, but at least doesn't crash. The current version of `nv' driver doesn't yet support my card.
The strangest thing is that all worked for a really long time and there's no obvious cause of the sudden failure. ( Didn't install or update anything major )
Thanks in advance for any comments.