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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 freezes with nvidia card
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On Monday 24 December 2007, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> I have a Dell D800 Latitude laptop.  If I use FreeBSD 7.0, and xorg
> with the nv driver, when I exit X, sometimes it simply freezes.  I
> tried it with the vesa driver. and the problem didn't seem to
> happen, but the vesa driver is unable to get the 1680x1050
> resolution of my monitor.
>
> I sent a similar message a while back because I thought the ndis
> driver was also involved.  But I have since disabled ndis. 
> (However when ndis is on, the problem is worse.)
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Stephen
> _______________________________________________

Have you tried the Nvidia driver from ports/x11?  It works well for me 
on my Dell I8600.