nvidia-driver weirdness

Remington mrl0lz at gmail.com
Tue Nov 29 09:10:57 GMT 2005


NvAGP 0 is running solid, dont know what it is... has to be the nvidia
driver

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 08:26 +0100, Christopher Illies wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 02:01:02PM -0800, Remington L wrote:
> > This is a fresh install as of three days ago. I can try NvAGP 0 but
> > what point would that do if it disables AGP?
> 
> Well, in my case it did solve the problem of xorg locking up. It is
> something you can try out, maybe it works, maybe it doesn't. The card
> still works with AGP disabled, only a bit slower, but ... it works and
> does not lock up anymore. 
> 
> I don't know much about hardware, but I guess there some problem with
> Nvidia working together with certain AGP chipsets on FreeBSD/Linux,
> but not on  Windows. Strange ....
> 
> Anyway, your problem might be the same, might be diffenrent, disabling
> AGP might help, or it might not, just try it out. I would be
> interested to hear whether it worked, though.
> 
> Christopher
> 
> > 
> > On 11/28/05, Louis LeBlanc <FreeBSD at keyslapper.net> wrote:
> > > On 11/27/05 10:37 PM, Remington sat at the `puter and typed:
> > > > FreeBSD  6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #1: Sat Nov 26 23:19:14 PST
> > > > 2005     root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MACHINE  i386
> > > >
> > > > nvidia-driver-1.0.7676_1
> > > > All ports current as of a few hours ago. No special make flags.
> > > >
> > > > Im sure this is a repeat post or I'm missing something stupid. Xorg
> > > > keeps randlonly locking and hard rebooting my machine when the nvidia
> > > > xorg driver is loaded. It can keep running for a few minutes, or take a
> > > > few hours before the lockup can occur.
> > > >
> > > > I have commented out device agp out of my kernel config, and likewise
> > > > kept it in there, both with no luck. I've also tried NvAGP set to both
> > > > 1, and 2 with no luck
> > > >
> > > >         Driver      "nvidia"
> > > >         VendorName  "NVIDIA"
> > > >         BoardName   "Geforce 6800 GT"
> > > >         Option      "NvAGP" "2"
> > > >         BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
> > > >
> > > > Any assitance would be great, after an extensive google search I got
> > > > nothing.
> > >
> > > Is this an upgrade, or a new install of 6.0?  Many of the threads I've
> > > read regarding the Nvidia driver with 6.0 suggested that the Nvidia
> > > driver be rebuilt after the 6.0 upgrade.  In fact, I believe rebuilding
> > > all ports was recommended, which is why I've decided to invest in a
> > > second hard drive to do a new install.
> > >
> > > I don't know if it will help, but my own config is pretty much the
> > > same - with a couple extras to omit the logo splash, accelerate
> > > rendering, etc.  Of course, I'm still running 5.4.
> > >
> > > Try rebuilding the driver from ports - that's probably your best bet.
> > >
> > > HTH
> > > Lou
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> > >
> > >
> > 
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