nvidia-driver rebooting machine on X startup

Darren Spruell phatbuckett at gmail.com
Thu Sep 6 15:16:46 PDT 2007


On 9/6/07, Mel <fbsd.questions at rachie.is-a-geek.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 06 September 2007 22:10:42 Darren Spruell wrote:
> > Wondering if this is a known issue, or if anyone has suggestions to
> > get it working...?
> >
> > Running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 SMP i386.
> >
> > I installed nvidia-driver-100.14.11 from ports (Sep. 5 snapshot),
> > Linux compatibility enabled. After loading modules 'linux' and
> > 'nvidia', I do:
> >
> > # X -configure
> > # X -config /root/xorg.conf.new
> >
> > At this point the system spontaneously reboots. 'X -configure' runs
> > fine and produces a configuration without issue, but the reboot
> > occcurs when launching X. Nothing is output to screen (it flickers as
> > if starting X), and nothing is written to /var/log/Xorg.0.log. I do
> > get the same behavior if running 'xorgcfg'.
> >
> > Card info:
> >
> > "NV41 [Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI] rev 162"
> >
> > nvidia0 at pci7:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x029b10de chip=0x00cd10de
> > rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00
> >     vendor   = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
> >     class    = display
> >     subclass = VGA
>
> > Section "Device"
> >         Identifier  "Card0"
> >         Driver      "nvidia"
> >         VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
> >         BoardName   "NV41 [Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI]"
> >         BusID       "PCI:7:0:0"
> > EndSection
>
> Removing BusID do anything? All those Displays sounds a bit much too. I
> *strongly* recommend using nvidia-xconfig (x11/nvidia-config).

Commenting BusID has the same effect - prompt reboot.

The Display subsections are pretty standard for every X configuration
I've ever used; why would they cause a problem in this case?

> And anything /var/log/Xorg.0.log? Using nvAgp or FreeBSD Agp?

No, nothing gets to the log before reboot occurs.

Not using either of nvAgp or FreeBSD Agp, that I'm aware of. I did not
enable FREEBSD_AGP at build time.

DS


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