FreeBSD locks up when X-windows running (LONG)

[Mike Friedman]

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On Sat, 2 Jul 2005 at 15:09 (-0700), Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

> No, I am saying your going to have to rebuild with the June drivers and 
> _see_if_it_works_.
>
> If that locks up, well then as Nvidia wrote those drivers, you can call 
> them on their support line.  Please report back here and let us know how 
> this works out - a lot of people are avoiding purchasing that chipset or 
> boards with that chipset because Nvidia don't supply programming info, 
> and nobody really knows how well Nvidia is going to support us.

Ted,

Here's a followup report on the resolution of my video card problem.

Review:

The card I got with my new machine was an Nvidia GeForce 6600 (at least 
that's how the system identifies it at boot time). The system would lock 
up once X windows was running, but with no error messages and not until X 
had been up at least for a while.

After downloading the most current Nvidia driver for this card, building a 
new kernel with 'device agp' removed and telling xorg.conf to use the 
nvidia agp support, the symptoms still didn't change!

Resolution:

So, I talked to the vendor who sold me the machine and card and he sent me 
another card that's not quite as fast - a GeForce FX 5200. I rebooted with 
the original (GENERIC) kernel, configured my xorg.conf with parameters for 
my monitor (Samsung ScanMaster 213T), using 1600x1200 resolution, and it 
all seems to work.

Although I suppose I might have gotten the 6600 to work, I don't know how. 
And using the 5200 card even without the tuning of xorg.conf still didn't 
give system lockup problems, just sub-optimal screen resolution.  So, it 
would appear that the 6600 card is currently not supported under FreeBSD 
5.4-RELEASE, unless there's just something else I don't know about.

Thus, I'm returning the 6600 card and getting a rebate for the difference 
in price.

That's where it stands now.  I have a working system.

Thanks for the various suggestions I received here.

Mike

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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mike Friedman [mailto:mikef at ack.Berkeley.EDU]
>> Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 9:57 PM
>> To: Ted Mittelstaedt
>> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> Subject: RE: FreeBSD locks up when X-windows running (LONG)
>>
>> On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 at 21:20 (-0700), Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>>
>>> Your going to have to rebuild your system with the Nvidia written 
>>> driver, see here:
>>>
>>> http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_1.0-7667.html
>>>
>>> and see if it works.  Read the readme file with this driver carefully 
>>> first, then dig around the Internet, there are a few people who have 
>>> posted notes on setting this driver up.

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Mike Friedman                   System and Network Security
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1-510-642-1410                  University of California at Berkeley
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