Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 22:35:30 -0400 From: Scott Parrish <wsparrish@hotmail.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: unable to boot with Nvidia AGP graphics card Message-ID: <BLU148-W11E4E155E27C6E186FE6F5A8670@phx.gbl>
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Hi all=2C Recently my PCI graphics card failed on my Dell Dimension 4100. I replaced= it with a known good card I had lying around: an Nvidia GeForce 3 TI200 w= ith an AGP interface. My FreeBSD installation will not boot with this grap= hics card. The boot loader hangs at the twirling baton as follows: /boot/kernel/acpi.ko text=3D0x43698 data=3D0x23c0+0x10f0 syms=3D[0x4+0x7ba0+0x4+0xa828] \ I'm running 7.1-RELEASE generic kernel. Anyone ever see anything like this before? Any ideas on how I can debug? = Is there anything I can do with the loader prompt to see what is happening = when this occurs? The keyboard still seems responsive when this happens (the caps-lock=2C num= -lock=2C etc. still work). It is almost as if the boot loader is unsure ho= w to send output to the AGP bus. I have tweaked every possible setting in = the very limited BIOS but nothing helps. BTW=2C I know that my hardware is good because this is a dual boot system a= nd I am able to boot into Windows just fine. I am also able to run Linux f= rom a live cd. However=2C I also tried a FreeBSD install disk and it hangs= at the same place. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer! -William _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail=AE goes with you.=20 http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Mobile?ocid=3DTXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutor= ial_Mobile1_052009=
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