Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 17:28:04 +0100 From: Marco Trentini <mark@remotelab.org> To: Yuri Grebenkin <rainbreath@hotpop.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nVidia Riva TNT2 M64 problem on FreeBSD4.9 Message-ID: <20040201162804.GB614@einstein.lab> In-Reply-To: <opr2o6ayn3w41ezb@smtp.hotpop.com> References: <opr2o5s1jmw41ezb@smtp.hotpop.com> <opr2o6ayn3w41ezb@smtp.hotpop.com>
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On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 06:22:00PM +0300, Yuri Grebenkin wrote: > Hi. I spent so much time trying to make nVidia Riva TNT2 M64 running on > FreeBSD4.9 and I think one of us must die! > I downloaded NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-4365.tar.gz from www.nvidia.com > (it's identical to one from ports' /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver). That's > no matter I instal from ports or just by 'make setup' I get the same > problem. > I have a configured kernel as it was described in nVidia docs (e.g. with > USER_LDT) and configured XF86Config accordingly to nvidia driver. I have > made big amount of installations (tryed between FreeBSD AGPGART and > nVidia AGP, etc.) but whatever I do I get this story: > > I reboot after installation; login; issue 'startx'. > > Here I see as it starts Ok (it fills about a half of screen with > messages, ends at 'Using config file...'). Usually (with VESA driver) at > this point screen flashes to black and then to my desktop (I use KDE). > But with nVidia driver I still see these textmode messages for awhile, > after that machine reboots! (Without any syncing to disks or shutdown > process). I mean it hangs up and nothing of keyboard or hdd or else is > active before this dirty reboot. > > Thanks to God that I configured X back to VESA, but GLX became unusable. > > So I need help with configuration of nVidia acceleration. I need it for > I had some OpenGL programming experience under RH Linux that could be > ported to FreeBSD with success. > > Configurations and logs attached. > I don't see any attachments, anyway this could be a SGRAM/SDRAM TNT cards problem. Try (before run X) sysctl hw.nvidia.registry.VideoMemoryTypeOverride=SDRAM or SGRAM (according to your card memory type) -- Marco Trentini mark@remotelab.org http://www.remotelab.org/
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