FreeBSD 4.9-PRE + NVIDIA
Vulpes Velox
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Tue Sep 30 10:06:26 PDT 2003
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 11:18:36 +0300
Dmitry <demon at gsic.lv> wrote:
> Hi all !
> I have installed NVIDIA driver from port collection, a nd when I try to star
> XFree86 - it simply crashes and reboots... I did all as described in README
> file, all options, needed to run driver corectly, are in kernel. I tryed all
> possible otions in
> Option "NvAGP" ""
> Also tryed to install driver manually, tryed to make it with
> WITH_FREEBSD_AGP=yes Now I symply have no ideas how to solve this problem...
> May be someone is using Riva TNT2 ULTRA under FreeBSD 4.9 PRE ?
excert from README.linux... this may be worth looking into....
(app-h) APPENDIX H: TNT SPECIFIC ISSUES
__________________________________________________________________________
Most issues pertaining to SGRAM/SDRAM TNT cards should be resolved.
There is the rare chance, however, that your video card has the wrong
BIOS installed, and that this driver will continue to fail for you.
If this driver fails for you, do the following:
o watch your monitor as the system boots. The very first, brief screen
will identify the type of video memory your card has. This will be
either SGRAM or SDRAM.
o edit the file "os-registry.c" from the kernel module sources. Look
for the variable "NVreg_VideoMemoryTypeOverride". Set the value of
the variable to the type of memory you have (numerically, see the
line just above it).
o since we don't normally use this variable, change the "#if 0" that is
about 10 lines above the variable to "#if 1".
o rebuild and reinstall the new driver ("make")
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