From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 7 00:28:02 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 954C516A420 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 00:28:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from phatbuckett@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D7A913C45E for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 00:28:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from phatbuckett@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l15so281160rvb for ; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:28:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=+ij+tS4cKBw6VHPuQPtnEci2zlZ+Ps1B4hTp2oIVeM8=; b=dhbt2LmnbDd/FqlYqKaSvzDQ00NEYU722kAe5FKAHdbMOUPinuw1IKNjwlGtigd+6xsnQrr17pWANgI5F306lokIeGcvM6DSfsSX4qU/fgLhbjFqTDox10HzUHy/DuXFMRCp2FRhV6aKfTXZ8zVnSL5ihi2b0otdBTigEnXR4bw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=cdsxNjpPh3BfpUueaTyQKxX9OYV/kQwpZlHZHJ4UsVXPF73FH/BtKYB5lnt5+QSXmkglbI+4HNkFGjwcbr7oEYYHY+Qe6fhAFqmqr076hIN5/BgLtZYq+puF4LJn78IkjxwGlgm0BqhcI5elLzpgW+kkPO4l+OxEDVA/0ltgUcI= Received: by 10.115.22.1 with SMTP id z1mr206536wai.1189124882043; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:28:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.178.17 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 17:28:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <839aec700709061728x77f91fe6td50fa88fa8b6caf4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 17:28:02 -0700 From: "Darren Spruell" To: "Jona Joachim" In-Reply-To: <20070907012958.70a96fe4@spaceman.my.domain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <839aec700709061310m44a1f0f8p55fd7706ed3c02af@mail.gmail.com> <20070907012958.70a96fe4@spaceman.my.domain> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nvidia-driver rebooting machine on X startup 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: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:28:02 -0000 On 9/6/07, Jona Joachim wrote: > On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 13:10:42 -0700 > "Darren Spruell" wrote: > > > Wondering if this is a known issue, or if anyone has suggestions to > > get it working...? > > > > Running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 SMP i386. > > > > I installed nvidia-driver-100.14.11 from ports (Sep. 5 snapshot), > > Linux compatibility enabled. After loading modules 'linux' and > > 'nvidia', I do: > > > > # X -configure > > # X -config /root/xorg.conf.new > > > > At this point the system spontaneously reboots. 'X -configure' runs > > fine and produces a configuration without issue, but the reboot > > occcurs when launching X. Nothing is output to screen (it flickers as > > if starting X), and nothing is written to /var/log/Xorg.0.log. I do > > get the same behavior if running 'xorgcfg'. > > Did you reinstall/upgrade X after having installed nvidia-driver? > X actually overwrites libraries that nvidia-driver installs so you have > to reinstall nvidia-driver every time you upgrade X. > I remember having had some bad crashes some time ago because X overwrote > nvidia GLX libraries. > > Best regards, > Jona > Nope - driver was the most recent thing installed. I'm looking into AGP options as suggested earlier... didn't realize that this _needed_ AGP support to function. -- Darren Spruell phatbuckett@gmail.com