Nvidia 8800 GTS

Alexandre Vieira nullpt at gmail.com
Sat May 26 00:31:04 UTC 2007


On 5/25/07, Derek Ragona <derek at computinginnovations.com> wrote:
>
>  At 01:16 PM 5/25/2007, Alexandre Vieira wrote:
>
> Hello folks,
>
> I've bought a Nvidia 8800GTS 320MB DDR and i'm trying to get it working
> with
> freebsd.
>
> I've installed Xorg 7.2 and the nvidia driver. The driver detects the card
> correctly and displays the card info correctly.
>
> When I launch Xorg with the nvidia driver I get a striped green screen and
> the machine freezes completely. I can't see any X logs because it crashes
> immediately.
>
>
> Sounds like you don't the right refresh settings for your monitor.  Double
> check the refresh rates you choose in configuring X and the resolutions too.
>
>         -Derek
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Hi, thanks for the reply

Is that reason to hard freeze the machine? I'll check the monitor manual and
set manually the refresh settings for the monitor.

Thanks
Regards

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Alexandre Vieira - nullpt at gmail.com


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