FreeBSD 8.0 amd64 with 8GB RAM (deadlock) Howdy, I played a bit with the 64bit driver under FreeBD-8.0 (RELENG_8). RELEASE works perfect, after updating to RELENG_8 I get a hang, which means, i can't start xorg with nvidia driver. Hang means that machine stops responding completely, not reacting to keyboard input or network pings. I have added all kernel debug stuff to my kernel [1] in hope to get any more information. As that didn't really help I then downgraded day by day to find out which src/sys commit breaks it seems I found it: http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=200443 I wrote a mail to Konstantin (kib@) and explained him my problem, he told me that he need more infomation. And he also said that he think that this commit is not related to this problem but he liked to know more about this problem. We attempted to debug the hung machine using kgdb over firewire. We were able to successfully attach over firewire with kgdb before starting X, but firewire host lost connection to the target upon start of the X. It looks like whole machine become dead. Upon detailed reading of the dmesg, the nvidia card appeared to share the interrupt with on-board network controller. Disabling the controller from the BIOS temporary (until next reboot) enabled the X to start. Unfortunately, after the reboot, one of the USB controllers was assigned IRQ18, used by the nvidia card, attempt to start X killed the machine. We disabled USB in BIOS, and again, were able to start X once until the reboot. We were unable to found the way to force card to use MSI to confirm the natural theory of interrupt sharing causing the hang. Another test was to disable smp support. i've set kern.smp.disabled=1 in loader.conf nvidia started here and works fine. About my Hardware: I've a Asus M4A78T-E with 8 GB ram, the onboard gfx card is disabled via BIOS. Nvidia card is a: GeForce 7300 GS here my dmesg where nvidia failed: [3] http://nopaste.unixfreunde.de/1130 here my dmesg where nvidia works: http://miwi.homeunix.com/nvidia/dmesg.31.12_11_22.txt http://miwi.homeunix.com/nvidia/vmstat_31_12_11_22.txt pciconf -lv http://nopaste.unixfreunde.de/1131 # Debugging for use in -current options KDB # Enable kernel debugger support. options DDB # Support DDB. options GDB # Support remote GDB. options INVARIANTS # Enable calls of extra sanity checking options INVARIANT_SUPPORT # Extra sanity checks of internal structures, required by INVARIANTS options WITNESS # Enable checks to detect deadlocks and cycles options WITNESS_SKIPSPIN # Don't run witness on spinlocks for speed options DEBUG_LOCKS options DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS options DIAGNOSTIC options SW_WATCHDOG #options MP_WATCHDOG options KSTACK_PAGES=7 options KDB_UNATTENDED #options BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER options ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER