From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 1 17:01:31 2004 Return-Path: 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 58D6C16A4CE for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 17:01:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailhub.sweetdreamsracing.biz (mailhub.sweetdreamsracing.biz [66.92.171.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0925643D2F for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 17:01:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz) Received: by mailhub.sweetdreamsracing.biz (Postfix, from userid 80) id 8102D61AA; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 11:57:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from 141.156.69.109 ([141.156.69.109]) by www.sweetdreamsracing.biz (Horde) with HTTP for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 11:57:32 -0500 Message-ID: <20041201115732.pb4ccsok8gwoc44c@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 11:57:32 -0500 From: Kenneth Culver To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, Louis LeBlanc References: <200411291513.35761.kirk@strauser.com> <20041129215849.GH23654@keyslapper.org> <20041129171611.eqs4wkgok080swcg@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> <20041129225335.GI23654@keyslapper.org> <20041130112711.0w4w0sk40wg04kow@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> <20041130164508.GB29924@keyslapper.org> <20041130132216.k8swskk0g4oc84ok@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> <20041201060248.GA64694@keyslapper.org> <20041201104444.0og488cc4s8go8co@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> <20041201165605.GA34128@keyslapper.org> In-Reply-To: <20041201165605.GA34128@keyslapper.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 4.0-cvs Subject: Re: NVidia driver not using AGP? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 17:01:31 -0000 Quoting Louis LeBlanc : > On 12/01/04 10:44 AM, Kenneth Culver sat at the `puter and typed: >> Quoting Louis LeBlanc : >> I wonder what the people who actually have this working are >> doing differently >> from those of us who can't seem to get it to work. > > I wish I knew. I can't imagine it's hardware related beyond the NVidia > card itself. > > One thing I didn't mention is my loader.conf settings: > linux_load="YES" > nvidia_load="YES" > > That's it. > > I don't think I really went to herculean lengths to get it right, I just > did what I assumed needed to be done based on a quick scan of the > readily available docs, aside from initially getting that AGP setting > wrong in the Xorg config of course. > > When I initially built the drivers with AGP enabled, I was having > problems with the display. One screen would look like it was having a > psychotic break, while the other stayed blank. That may have been a > conflict between the two AGP drivers though. > > Now that I'm a little more enlightened about it - being optomistic of > course - I think it would be ok to rebuild the drivers with the AGPGART > enabled, so long as I have the xorg config right. The pain in the neck > comes with rebuilding the kernel without the FreeBSD agp.ko. > > I can't just put a line in loader.conf to tell the kernel to leave agp > off, can I? Something like 'agp_load="NO"'? It does have to be a > rebuild kernel doesn't it? > Well I just updated to the latest stable today, and set everything to use the nvidia agp driver, and it decided to start working. I'm just going to throw my hands up and be glad it's working now. Ken