From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 1 08:28:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59AD116A4CE; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 08:28:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from 194-185-53-242.f5.ngi.it (194-185-53-242.f5.ngi.it [194.185.53.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23BA643D2D; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 08:28:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@remotelab.org) Received: from einstein.lab (einstein.lab [192.168.168.2]) i11GSJ0K054254; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 17:28:19 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mark@remotelab.org) Received: from einstein.lab (localhost.lab [127.0.0.1]) by einstein.lab (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i11GS5R5001635; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 17:28:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mark@einstein.lab) Received: (from mark@localhost) by einstein.lab (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i11GS4Nl001634; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 17:28:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 17:28:04 +0100 From: Marco Trentini To: Yuri Grebenkin Message-ID: <20040201162804.GB614@einstein.lab> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nVidia Riva TNT2 M64 problem on FreeBSD4.9 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:28:24 -0000 On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 06:22:00PM +0300, Yuri Grebenkin wrote: > Hi. I spent so much time trying to make nVidia Riva TNT2 M64 running on > FreeBSD4.9 and I think one of us must die! > I downloaded NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-4365.tar.gz from www.nvidia.com > (it's identical to one from ports' /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver). That's > no matter I instal from ports or just by 'make setup' I get the same > problem. > I have a configured kernel as it was described in nVidia docs (e.g. with > USER_LDT) and configured XF86Config accordingly to nvidia driver. I have > made big amount of installations (tryed between FreeBSD AGPGART and > nVidia AGP, etc.) but whatever I do I get this story: > > I reboot after installation; login; issue 'startx'. > > Here I see as it starts Ok (it fills about a half of screen with > messages, ends at 'Using config file...'). Usually (with VESA driver) at > this point screen flashes to black and then to my desktop (I use KDE). > But with nVidia driver I still see these textmode messages for awhile, > after that machine reboots! (Without any syncing to disks or shutdown > process). I mean it hangs up and nothing of keyboard or hdd or else is > active before this dirty reboot. > > Thanks to God that I configured X back to VESA, but GLX became unusable. > > So I need help with configuration of nVidia acceleration. I need it for > I had some OpenGL programming experience under RH Linux that could be > ported to FreeBSD with success. > > Configurations and logs attached. > I don't see any attachments, anyway this could be a SGRAM/SDRAM TNT cards problem. Try (before run X) sysctl hw.nvidia.registry.VideoMemoryTypeOverride=SDRAM or SGRAM (according to your card memory type) -- Marco Trentini mark@remotelab.org http://www.remotelab.org/