Bug 201785 - [nvidia] nVidia Xorg Driver 340.76 System Crash in UEFI FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p15
Summary: [nvidia] nVidia Xorg Driver 340.76 System Crash in UEFI FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p15
Status: Closed Not Enough Information
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: kern (show other bugs)
Version: 10.1-RELEASE
Hardware: amd64 Any
: --- Affects Many People
Assignee: Kevin Bowling
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2015-07-23 12:54 UTC by Tomasz "CeDeROM" CEDRO
Modified: 2021-08-15 21:50 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

See Also:

Attachments
crash screenshot (223.27 KB, image/jpeg)
2015-07-23 12:54 UTC, Tomasz "CeDeROM" CEDRO 		no flags Details
View All Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.
Description Tomasz "CeDeROM" CEDRO 2015-07-23 12:54:41 UTC 
Created attachment 159108 [details]
crash screenshot

nVidia Xorg driver 340.76 causes lots of troubles in UEFI boot:
1. Does not load from /boot/loader.conf, only kld_load in /etc/rc.conf.
2. Hangs computer after some time of inactivity in Xorg (after xscreensaver is launched). Probably APM related. Only hardware power-off is possible. No problem when machine works for a long time in console mode with no Xorg running.

New nvidia driver does not work on my GF GT9800GT which I don't really want to replace as it has no-fan cooling.

No kernel coredump is possible.

Please fix nVidia driver in UEFI boot/kernel :-)
Comment 1 Tomasz "CeDeROM" CEDRO 2015-07-24 11:09:26 UTC 
I have traced the issue to be caused by "ErP READY" BIOS settings.

When ErP is enabled nvidia crashes, probably because system shuts down the power to the video card. When ErP READY is disbaled in BIOS no crash occurs.
Comment 2 Tomasz "CeDeROM" CEDRO 2015-07-24 12:38:26 UTC 
Negative. Although ErP power management is disabled in BIOS system still crashes after some time of inactivity. This is critical and does not allow to use UEFI+XORG+NVIDIA.
Comment 3 Tomasz "CeDeROM" CEDRO 2015-07-24 19:39:37 UTC 
GPU is ASUS GF9800GT, not supported by newer driver.
Comment 4 Kevin Bowling freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-08-15 21:50:00 UTC 
This driver has seen 6+ years of work and has been stable for many UEFI users.  Please reopen if there is still an issue.