nVidia Riva TNT2 M64 problem on FreeBSD4.9

[Marco Trentini]

On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 06:22:00PM +0300, Yuri Grebenkin wrote:
> Hi. I spent so much time trying to make nVidia Riva TNT2 M64 running on
> FreeBSD4.9 and I think one of us must die!
> I downloaded NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-4365.tar.gz from www.nvidia.com
> (it's identical to one from ports' /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver). That's
> no matter I instal from ports or just by 'make setup' I get the same
> problem.
> I have a configured kernel as it was described in nVidia docs (e.g. with
> USER_LDT) and configured XF86Config accordingly to nvidia driver. I have
> made big amount of installations (tryed between FreeBSD AGPGART and
> nVidia AGP, etc.) but whatever I do I get this story:
> 
> I reboot after installation; login; issue 'startx'.
> 
> Here I see as it starts Ok (it fills about a half of screen with
> messages, ends at 'Using config file...'). Usually (with VESA driver) at
> this point screen flashes to black and then to my desktop (I use KDE).
> But with nVidia driver I still see these textmode messages for awhile,
> after that machine reboots! (Without any syncing to disks or shutdown
> process). I mean it hangs up and nothing of keyboard or hdd or else is
> active before this dirty reboot.
> 
> Thanks to God that I configured X back to VESA, but GLX became unusable.
> 
> So I need help with configuration of nVidia acceleration. I need it for
> I had some OpenGL programming experience under RH Linux that could be
> ported to FreeBSD with success.
> 
> Configurations and logs attached.
> 


I don't see any attachments, anyway this could be a
SGRAM/SDRAM TNT cards problem.

Try (before run X)

sysctl hw.nvidia.registry.VideoMemoryTypeOverride=SDRAM or
SGRAM (according to your card memory type)

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