nforce 2 drivers aren't working

Matthew N. Dodd mdodd at FreeBSD.ORG
Fri Sep 12 22:38:14 PDT 2003


On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, jason wrote:
> Has anyone with a nforce2 board got the agp working?  I have been trying
> on my machine with the new driver /usr/src/sys/pci/agp_nvidia.c.  When I
> load it as a module or compile it in I have problems.  The cml is fine.
> When I start gnome or X the system freezes with a black screen, there is
> hard drive activity, and no response to keyboard input.  I'm trying to
> rewrite the driver, but this is my first time at writting a driver.
> Any experiencies anyone has had would be helpful, and I can post any
> info anyone else thinks is relevent.

Try compiling and running ftp://ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/agptest.c from
the console.

Are you using an ATI card?

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