nvidia-driver rebooting machine on X startup

[Darren Spruell]

On 9/6/07, Jona Joachim <jaj at hcl-club.lu> wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 13:10:42 -0700
> "Darren Spruell" <phatbuckett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Wondering if this is a known issue, or if anyone has suggestions to
> > get it working...?
> >
> > Running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 SMP i386.
> >
> > I installed nvidia-driver-100.14.11 from ports (Sep. 5 snapshot),
> > Linux compatibility enabled. After loading modules 'linux' and
> > 'nvidia', I do:
> >
> > # X -configure
> > # X -config /root/xorg.conf.new
> >
> > At this point the system spontaneously reboots. 'X -configure' runs
> > fine and produces a configuration without issue, but the reboot
> > occcurs when launching X. Nothing is output to screen (it flickers as
> > if starting X), and nothing is written to /var/log/Xorg.0.log. I do
> > get the same behavior if running 'xorgcfg'.
>
> Did you reinstall/upgrade X after having installed nvidia-driver?
> X actually overwrites libraries that nvidia-driver installs so you have
> to reinstall nvidia-driver every time you upgrade X.
> I remember having had some bad crashes some time ago because X overwrote
> nvidia GLX libraries.
>
> Best regards,
> Jona
>

Nope - driver was the most recent thing installed.

I'm looking into AGP options as suggested earlier... didn't realize
that this _needed_ AGP support to function.

-- 
Darren Spruell
phatbuckett at gmail.com