nvidia-driver weirdness

[Remington L]

This is a fresh install as of three days ago. I can try NvAGP 0 but
what point would that do if it disables AGP?

On 11/28/05, Louis LeBlanc <FreeBSD at keyslapper.net> wrote:
> On 11/27/05 10:37 PM, Remington sat at the `puter and typed:
> > FreeBSD  6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #1: Sat Nov 26 23:19:14 PST
> > 2005     root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MACHINE  i386
> >
> > nvidia-driver-1.0.7676_1
> > All ports current as of a few hours ago. No special make flags.
> >
> > Im sure this is a repeat post or I'm missing something stupid. Xorg
> > keeps randlonly locking and hard rebooting my machine when the nvidia
> > xorg driver is loaded. It can keep running for a few minutes, or take a
> > few hours before the lockup can occur.
> >
> > I have commented out device agp out of my kernel config, and likewise
> > kept it in there, both with no luck. I've also tried NvAGP set to both
> > 1, and 2 with no luck
> >
> >         Driver      "nvidia"
> >         VendorName  "NVIDIA"
> >         BoardName   "Geforce 6800 GT"
> >         Option      "NvAGP" "2"
> >         BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
> >
> > Any assitance would be great, after an extensive google search I got
> > nothing.
>
> Is this an upgrade, or a new install of 6.0?  Many of the threads I've
> read regarding the Nvidia driver with 6.0 suggested that the Nvidia
> driver be rebuilt after the 6.0 upgrade.  In fact, I believe rebuilding
> all ports was recommended, which is why I've decided to invest in a
> second hard drive to do a new install.
>
> I don't know if it will help, but my own config is pretty much the
> same - with a couple extras to omit the logo splash, accelerate
> rendering, etc.  Of course, I'm still running 5.4.
>
> Try rebuilding the driver from ports - that's probably your best bet.
>
> HTH
> Lou
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