From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 20 07:59:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 882B716A4B3 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 07:59:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhub.sweetdreamsracing.biz (mailhub.sweetdreamsracing.biz [66.92.171.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3A7143F3F for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 07:59:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz) Received: by mailhub.sweetdreamsracing.biz (Postfix, from userid 80) id F33266A; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:05:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 141.156.69.109 ([141.156.69.109]) by www.sweetdreamsracing.biz (Horde) with HTTP for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:05:55 -0400 Message-ID: <1066662355.5qtvlauk70cg@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:05:55 -0400 From: Kenneth Culver To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" References: <200310201051.h9KApUa6006302@www.kukulies.org> <1066661276.2ai2gfhl2000@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> <20031020145435.GA7211@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <20031020145435.GA7211@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 4.0-cvs cc: "C. Kukulies" cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nvidia.ko X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:59:54 -0000 Quoting "Christoph P. Kukulies" : > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:47:56AM -0400, Kenneth Culver wrote: > > Quoting "C. Kukulies" : > > > > > What is the recommended way to use the nvidia driver under > FreeBSD-current? > > > WITH_FREEBSD_AGP or not? (Dell Inspiron 8000 w/ Geforce2 Go) > > > > > > I have agb_load="YES" > > agp_load of course. > > > > nvidia_load="YES" > > > > > > in /boot/loader.conf > > > > > > At present I get a cold boot when I startx. Screen becomes dark and after > > > a couple of seconds I get the DELL Logo, rebooting. > > > > > > I want to use OpenGL so using the XFree86 driver (nv) is not an > alternative. > > > > > > -- > > > > In my experience the nvidia agp driver is faster, but also crashes more. If > all > > you did was the above, you are still using the nvidia driver. You have to > > recompile the nvidia driver with the WITH_FREEBSD_AGP to use the agp driver > > that comes with FreeBSD. When I used the FreeBSD AGP driver, I had no > stability > > problems. > > I removed the agp_load line. Now I'm getting this when starting X: > ... > (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Mon Oct 20 16:47:12 2003 > (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config" > (EE) Failed to load module "glx" (module does not exist, 0) > (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0) > (EE) No drivers available. > > Fatal server error: > no screens found > > When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send > the full server output, not just the last messages. > This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log". > Please report problems to xfree86@xfree86.org. > > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). > kukuboo2k# kldstat > Id Refs Address Size Name > 1 12 0xc0400000 6138e8 kernel > 2 2 0xc0a14000 1d484 linux.ko > 3 1 0xc0a32000 1af1dc nvidia.ko > 4 1 0xc0be2000 4bd1c acpi.ko > 5 1 0xc3305000 b000 ntfs.ko > 6 1 0xc3375000 8000 snd_maestro3.ko > 7 1 0xc337d000 19000 snd_pcm.ko > > Any ideas what could be wrong? > > Yeah, when you recompile the nvidia driver, you still have to have agp.ko loaded. Ken