From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 30 06:38:58 2003 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 14DEB37B401 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 06:38:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.uc3m.es (smtp01.uc3m.es [163.117.136.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 244C143F85 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 06:38:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jrh@it.uc3m.es) Received: from smtp01.uc3m.es (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.uc3m.es (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0CD3431F2 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:38:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from itserv2.lab.it.uc3m.es (itserv2.lab.it.uc3m.es [163.117.144.121]) by smtp01.uc3m.es (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6190D99E68 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:38:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mira.it.uc3m.es (mira.it.uc3m.es [163.117.140.166]) by itserv2.lab.it.uc3m.es (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA08368 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:38:54 +0200 From: Juan Rodriguez Hervella Organization: UC3M To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:38:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <200306201235.30728.jrh@it.uc3m.es> In-Reply-To: <200306201235.30728.jrh@it.uc3m.es> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306301538.54251.jrh@it.uc3m.es> Subject: Re: My computer gets stalled when I try to exec the X window system (It was can't compile Nvidia driver) 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: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 13:38:58 -0000 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