From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 6 00:09:46 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A34E16A4CE for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 00:09:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout10.sul.t-online.com (mailout10.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BE4643D1D for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 00:09:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hhasenbe@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de) Received: from fwd04.aul.t-online.de by mailout10.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 1BLd0T-0004kt-01; Thu, 06 May 2004 09:09:21 +0200 Received: from techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (SrY4MvZbYec9vXpECW2agUvUNsGinHMLDs6MdBCsGmzjpb7dK3Up6l@[217.225.30.153]) by fmrl04.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 1BLd0E-1eIC000; Thu, 6 May 2004 09:09:06 +0200 Message-ID: <4099E481.9090201@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 09:08:49 +0200 From: Hendrik Hasenbein User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316 X-Accept-Language: de, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kenneth Culver References: <40982623.2090804@bellsouth.net> <409947B8.6050804@mitre.org> <20040505161811.ca8s4c88s48ckoos@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> <200405061102.57036.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20040505224110.egwww084ck8w8scc@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> In-Reply-To: <20040505224110.egwww084ck8w8scc@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Seen: false X-ID: SrY4MvZbYec9vXpECW2agUvUNsGinHMLDs6MdBCsGmzjpb7dK3Up6l@t-dialin.net cc: Dimitry Andric cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: nilson@bellsouth.net cc: Johan Pettersson Subject: Re: nVidia FX Support? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 07:09:46 -0000 Kenneth Culver wrote: > Quoting Daniel O'Connor : > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Thu, 6 May 2004 05:48, Kenneth Culver wrote: >> >>> > If it still hangs, or is unstable, you might try forcing the AGP >>> down to >>> > 4x or 2x. Many motherboards are unstable at 8x. >>> >>> I'm thinking it's because I had the XFree86-Server-Snap port >>> installed... >>> that nvidia driver wasn't designed to work with that server. Also, I >>> have >>> the acpi module loaded, and I've heard of that causing problems. The >>> card >>> works fine in 8x mode in windows, so I don't think that's the problem. >> >> >> The Windows drivers could have workarounds for broken AGP hardware (ie >> the AGP >> driver itself) >> > I don't think the AGP hardware is broken, but BSD can't seem to route the > interrupt correctly for the AGP port. It cause the video card to be > routed to > IRQ 11 in FreeBSD, but in Windows, it is routed to irq 16. They should > be the > same in both OS's, and since it works in windows, I'm assuming it's FreeBSD > that's broken. No they don't need to be reported as the same interrupt. Just look at APIC vs non-APIC. IRQ11 looks like non-APIC, IRQ16 is most likely APIC driven. If you have agp in your kernel, remove that line and preload the nvidia.ko from the bootloader. That way my system works with a 5900XT. (nforce2, no apic, acpi enabled) Hendrik