Nvidia 8800 GTS

[Garrett Cooper]

Alexandre Vieira wrote:
> On 5/26/07, Alexandre Vieira <nullpt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 5/25/07, Derek Ragona <derek at computinginnovations.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >  At 01:16 PM 5/25/2007, Alexandre Vieira wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello folks,
>> >
>> > I've bought a Nvidia 8800GTS 320MB DDR and i'm trying to get it working
>> > with
>> > freebsd.
>> >
>> > I've installed Xorg 7.2 and the nvidia driver. The driver detects the
>> > card
>> > correctly and displays the card info correctly.
>> >
>> > When I launch Xorg with the nvidia driver I get a striped green screen
>> > and
>> > the machine freezes completely. I can't see any X logs because it
>> > crashes
>> > immediately.
>> >
>> >
>> > Sounds like you don't the right refresh settings for your monitor.
>> > Double check the refresh rates you choose in configuring X and the
>> > resolutions too.
>> >
>> >         -Derek
>> >
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>> Hi, thanks for the reply
>>
>> Is that reason to hard freeze the machine? I'll check the monitor manual
>> and set manually the refresh settings for the monitor.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Regards
>>
>> -- 
>> Alexandre Vieira - nullpt at gmail.com
>>
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I added the HorizSync and VertRefresh to the correct values present in the
> monitor manual. Removed Glcore and dri and made sure glx is enabled. I also
> tried to set NvAgp to 0 (just in case) and still the same result: green 
> with
> black strips screen + hard crash on the machine (keyboard locks don'tt
> answer too).
> 
> Any more tips on this one?
> 
> Thanks!

	I'll be where you're at in a few hours (need to backup Linux data and 
install FreeBSD on desktop) -- I just bought a 8800 GTS too.

	We'll see what happens..

	Any error messages on the console or Xorg.0.log though?

-Garrett