From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 7 04:26:47 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A38C3106564A for ; Thu, 7 May 2009 04:26:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 722C48FC12 for ; Thu, 7 May 2009 04:26:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from sarevok.dnr.servegame.org (mailhub.lan.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.11]) by mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F8F07E837; Wed, 6 May 2009 20:26:45 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel Flynn To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 06:26:43 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.2 (FreeBSD/8.0-CURRENT; KDE/4.2.2; i386; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200905070626.43652.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> Cc: Scott Parrish Subject: Re: unable to boot with Nvidia AGP graphics card X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 04:26:47 -0000 On Thursday 07 May 2009 04:35:30 Scott Parrish wrote: > Hi all, > 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 > with an AGP interface. My FreeBSD installation will not boot with this > graphics card. The boot loader hangs at the twirling baton as follows: > /boot/kernel/acpi.ko text=0x43698 data=0x23c0+0x10f0 > syms=[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? Most common cause is a faulty hints file, since you can't install from CD either, the GENERIC hints aren't working for this system. You could try 7.2- RELEASE cd and file a PR otherwise. The dmesg from linux would be useful information in this PR. > 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, num-lock, etc. still work). It is almost as if the boot > loader is unsure how to send output to the AGP bus. You can disable the AGP at loader prompt, similar to how one would do that in the hints file: hint.agp.0.disabled="1" -- Mel