nVidia SYSCONS Problem on Compaq Presario CQ60
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Thu Oct 1 14:02:16 UTC 2009
On Thursday 01 October 2009 2:22:01 am Kenneth wrote:
> 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.
It should just work. I have no idea why it would think your console doesn't
support VGA. You'd have to add some printfs in the VGA/fb(4) code where it
figures out which video modes to enable to figure that out.
> 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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