From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 31 09:55:00 2009 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 D19A71065672 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:55:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nehe@telus.net) Received: from defout.telus.net (defout.telus.net [199.185.220.240]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89C738FC1F for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:55:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nehe@telus.net) Received: from priv-edtnaa05.telusplanet.net ([75.156.151.50]) by priv-edtnes28.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.7.08.04.00 201-2186-134-20080326) with ESMTP id <20090131095459.BSNH1538.priv-edtnes28.telusplanet.net@priv-edtnaa05.telusplanet.net> for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 02:54:59 -0700 Received: from [192.168.1.64] (d75-156-151-50.abhsia.telus.net [75.156.151.50]) by priv-edtnaa05.telusplanet.net (BorderWare Security Platform) with ESMTP id B8612A313035F91D for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 02:54:59 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <49842027.7010602@telus.net> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 02:55:51 -0700 From: Jeff Molofee User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090131) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20090129222917.2F8731065703@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20090129222917.2F8731065703@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: anyone suffering with NV / xorg 7.4 issues 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: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:55:01 -0000 I know most of you have already figured this out, and others have gone back to 7.3, but I thought I'd post what worked for me. I saw many people explain bits and pieces of the problem, but none of the bits and pieces helped me the last 3 days, until I put em all together (hard to do when you have to browse with LINKS. First issues first... I upgrade from 7.3 to 7.4 using portmanager -u, seemed to go without a hitch. I read UPDATING and followed all the instructions. Rebooted and everything was broken. I had everything from no screens, to no mouse, no keyboard, no X, no startx, wfb errors, you name it. I messed around with xorg.conf for hours!!! What I had to do was portmanager -u -p -l -y (thanks robert) - This brought all my ports back to a stable state (took ages) I build xorg-server without HAL at first, but this didn't matter, hal or not, it works fine (in the end I selected all 3 choices) I then grabbed the beta nvidia driver 180.22 from the nvidia web site - installed it with make install (couldn't get driver in ports to work) X -configure and nvidia-xconfig would not work for me so I took my old config and used it (will post below) - running X -configure resulted in 32 of everything (no idea why) By now I could get startx and X to launch X just fine, but gnome would not start at all (couldn't move mouse or type ... so it seems) At the top of my xorg.conf I had to add Option "AutoAddDevices" "off" (thx again robert)... for the longest time I was being an idiot and adding just AutoAddDevices "off" (reading man helped... duh) xorg.conf below (really stripped down) after this I did a reboot and everything is working with full 3D... hope this helps anyone still struggling :( Section "ServerFlags" Option "AutoAddDevices" "off" EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" EndSection Section "Files" EndSection Section "Module" Load "freetype" # Load "xtt" Load "extmod" Load "glx" Load "dbe" Load "record" Load "xtrap" Load "type1" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "Auto" Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "Monitor" ### Comment all HorizSync and VertRefresh values to use DDC: Identifier "Monitor0" HorizSync 31.5 - 57.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 100.0 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "nvidia" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection