From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 26 19:09:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3F3016A422 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:09:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout4.cac.washington.edu (mxout4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C6C243D4C for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:09:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.139]) by mxout4.cac.washington.edu (8.13.5+UW05.10/8.13.5+UW05.09) with ESMTP id k0QJ9Jib016117 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:09:19 -0800 X-Auth-Received: from [128.208.4.26] (shiina.dyn.cs.washington.edu [128.208.4.26]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.5+UW05.10/8.13.5+UW05.09) with ESMTP id k0QJ9IsH019206 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:09:19 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) In-Reply-To: <43D8EFCA.8060505@math.missouri.edu> References: <200601261544.k0QFihQn000396@mr-protocol.dyndns.org> <43D8EFCA.8060505@math.missouri.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <441CDE67-0B46-4857-88F4-74FA9CA792E6@u.washington.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Garrett Cooper Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:10:29 -0800 To: FreeBSD Questions X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' Subject: Re: X.org 6.9 doesn't work with NVidia 7800 GTX (fwd) 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, 26 Jan 2006 19:09:20 -0000 On Jan 26, 2006, at 7:50 AM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > Mike O'Brien wrote: >> I sent this to "freebsd-x11" and didn't hear a peep back, >> so I'm widening the net. >> I'm running FreeBSD 6-STABLE, cvsupped as of last night. I >> upgraded >> the ports collection to X.org 6.9 at the same time. Under the X >> that ships with 6-RELEASE, in the ISO image, and under X.org 6.9, >> the symptoms are the same. >> The hardware is an Athlon 4400+ CPU on an Asus motherboard and an >> NVIDIA 7800 GTX video card. >> I'm not running the NVidia FreeBSD driver (yet), preferring to >> see >> the VESA work first before stirring the pot. If I run X -probeonly, >> I get a message that "module fbdev cannot be found". This message >> is, however, almost unreadable because the probing of the video >> card causes the console contrast to drop almost to zero. The room >> has to be almost pitch-black before the remaining dim text can be >> read. I have to reboot the machine to make the console brightness >> and contrast normal again. >> Any takers on either of these problems? >> Mike O'Brien > > It might be worth trying the nvidia drivers even if VESA isn't > working. My personal experience with the very recent FreeBSD > nvidia drivers is that they are awesome. He should use the official drivers since they allow the end user to experience the chipset (graphics accelleration, rendering, compositing) much better than the non-official drivers do. As for the problems with the drivers... investigate getting a new monitor or returning the existing card via RMA if this problem continues. -Garrett