Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:38:53 +0200 From: Juan Rodriguez Hervella <jrh@it.uc3m.es> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My computer gets stalled when I try to exec the X window system (It was can't compile Nvidia driver) Message-ID: <200306301538.54251.jrh@it.uc3m.es> In-Reply-To: <200306201235.30728.jrh@it.uc3m.es> References: <200306201235.30728.jrh@it.uc3m.es>
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I've fixed this problem changing the jumpers of the motherboard. I've changed 2 jumpers: 1. On-board VGA = off 2. IRQ assigned by motherboard (or something like that) = off And now I've got the Nvidia driver working fine. Thanks!!! On Friday 20 June 2003 12:35, Juan Rodriguez Hervella wrote: > Hello again: > > It doesn't matter > if either I use the /usr/x11/nvidia-driver or I use the normal "nv" driver, > when I run "X" or "kdm" or "xf86cfg" my computer hangs completely. > > I've got the Nvidia RIVA TNT 64M PCI (I made a question here a cuople > of days ago). > > My computer has an ASUS-SP97 motherboard with a SIS5597 vga chipset > and it doesn't have AGP, only PCI and ISA slots. I upgraded my BIOS > to make it work with hard-disk bigger than 8G, and also to allow to > switch off the onboard VGA chipset..... With Linux and Windows > it works nice :( > > I've tried with XFree86-4.2 and XFree86-4.3, but no success. > > Sometimes, when I lauch "X", I see on the screen as if the > computer had reboot, I mean that I see the information about > the NVidia vga card that I usually see when I switch on the computer > for the first time. > > It's very strange because I've been working with my NVidia card > on 5.0-DP1, both with the "nv" driver and with a driver for FreeBSD-5.0 > before nvidia released his own driver. > > I don't know what I've done during this 2 weeks, but now I don't have > X system any more (lol). Im really fed up with this because I was getting > used to using KDE (lol again :) > > If anybody can help me....I will give my computer away to him, I swear > > Thanks :( -- JFRH
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