nVidia SYSCONS Problem on Compaq Presario CQ60
Kenneth
kennethcf at earthlink.net
Thu Oct 1 07:05:24 UTC 2009
Some more info...
The only savers that work are the text based savers, snake, stars, blank...
I did not try a splash screen, but my guess is that it won't work either.
I even put the vesa_load="YES" in my "/etc/rc.load", but still won't work.
-----Original Message-----
>From: Kenneth <kennethcf at earthlink.net>
>Sent: Oct 1, 2009 2:22 AM
>To: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>, freebsd-drivers at freebsd.org
>Cc: Jules Gilbert <jules.stocks at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: nVidia SYSCONS Problem on Compaq Presario CQ60
>
>You are correct. Is there anything I can configure for syscons to work with the screen savers? Below are some lines from the messages log file.
>
>vgao: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
>...
>sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
>sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
>...
>rain_saver: the console does not support M_VGA_CG320
>module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (rain_saver, 0xc709b7a0, 0) error 19
>
>-----Original Message-----
>>From: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
>>Sent: Sep 30, 2009 8:06 AM
>>To: freebsd-drivers at freebsd.org, Kenneth <kennethcf at earthlink.net>
>>Cc: Jules Gilbert <jules.stocks at gmail.com>
>>Subject: Re: nVidia SYSCONS Problem on Compaq Presario CQ60
>>
>>On Wednesday 30 September 2009 2:53:48 am Kenneth wrote:
>>> Can anyone help with a syscons error when loading the screen saver on boot
>>up (yes, I know I don't need it if I use X, but I would like to get it
>>working)?
>>>
>>> The error looks like...
>>> Configuring syscons: keyrate blanktime screensaver module_register_init:
>>MOD_LOAD (rain_saver, 0xc709a7a0, 0) error 19
>>>
>>> I have a Compaq Presario CQ60 running freeBSD 7.2 from a 4G usb drive.
>>>
>>> My Compaq has a GeForce 8200m G on vgapci0.
>>> #dmesg | grep nvidia
>>> vgapci0: child nvidia0 requested pci_enable_busmaster
>>> vgapci0: child nvidia0 requested pci_enable_io
>>> nvidia0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>>> nvidia0: [ITHREAD]
>>>
>>> And my /boot/loader.conf has...
>>> nvidia_load="YES" (just recently built..pkg_info
>>says "nvidia-driver-185.18.29")
>>>
>>> And my /etc/rc.conf has (among other things)...
>>> blanktime="300"
>>> saver="rain"
>>> hald_enable="YES"
>>> dbus_enable="YES"
>>>
>>> Let me know, and I'll send whatever information you need.
>>
>>The nvidia driver is completely unrelated to syscons. I think the rain saver
>>is failing because it doesn't think the relevant graphics mode is available.
>>Maybe check for this message in /var/log/messages?
>>
>> log(LOG_NOTICE,
>> "%s: the console does not support M_VGA_CG320\n",
>> SAVER_NAME);
>> return (ENODEV);
>>
>>--
>>John Baldwin
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