New nvidia drivers available

Kenneth Culver culverk at sweetdreamsracing.biz
Sat Aug 14 19:05:09 PDT 2004


Quoting Tim Robbins <tjr at freebsd.org>:

> On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 07:34:24PM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote:
>> The latest 6113 build of the nvidia graphics drivers has just 
>> appeared on nvidia's web site. Check out 
>> http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_1.0-6113.html if you are 
>> currently using the nvidia proprietary drivers. This driver works 
>> nicely on FreeBSD-current and while this version is not thread-safe, 
>> it does not conflict with libpthread or libthr's use of %gs so you 
>> don't have to map everything down to libc_r any more :-).
>
> Are you aware of any plans to release an AMD64 build of the driver?
>
>

Also, AGP doesn't seem to want to work with my ASUS k8v deluxe motherboard.

I tried to use FreeBSD's agp.ko, and with that, the screen just goes 
blank and I
have to push the reset button, and I tried with nvidia's agp, and this is what
the sysctl values say:

hw.nvidia.agp.card.rates: 8x 4x
hw.nvidia.agp.card.fw: supported
hw.nvidia.agp.card.sba: supported
hw.nvidia.agp.card.registers: 0x1f000e1b:0x00000000
hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled
hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: n/a (unused)
hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: n/a (disabled)
hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: n/a (disabled)
hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: n/a (disabled)

Is there something special to do in order to enable AGP (other than change the
value in the X config, and compile the kernel module right)??

This is the agp controller:

agp0: <VIA 8385 host to PCI bridge> mem 0xe0000000-0xefffffff at device 0.0 on
pci0

Ken


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