From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 1 22:28:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99FCD16A47C for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2006 22:28:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (dsl081-142-072.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.142.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F3AC453A8 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2006 21:34:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p17.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.6/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k61LY4LA024463 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2006 16:34:04 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20060701162643.026d9000@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 16:33:54 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Fixed my server crashing in X with AGP video 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, 01 Jul 2006 22:28:01 -0000 I have a server that ran fine in FreeBSD 5.X but after updating to 6.0 started crashing and rebooting from X. I thought maybe it was some anomaly and hoped 6.1 would fix it. It was still crashing, so I dove in to find why . . . It seems with some RTFM on the nvidia driver notes, I found the agp module compiled into FreeBSD kernels by default in 6.0 was a known problem. I disabled the kernel's agp putting in: hint.agp.0.disabled="1" in /boot/device.hints There is a driver setting for the nvidia driver I added to my XF86Config telling it to manage the agp. Since making these changes the server is completely stable running X. I have seen other messages with other video card problems, and wanted to share my experience as it may help other agp video card users. -Derek derek@computinginnovations.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.