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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 freezes with nvidia card
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David Booth wrote:
> 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.

That is what I was originally using.  But that also froze.  I switched 
to nv in hopes that the problem would go away.