From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 5 04:44:23 2004 Return-Path: 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 2326916A4CE for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 04:44:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from cpanel10.gzo.com (69-56-171-54.theplanet.com [69.56.171.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A960943D2D for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 04:44:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dany_list@natzo.com) Received: from pcp04639464pcs.gambrl01.md.comcast.net ([68.50.51.181] helo=natzo.com) by cpanel10.gzo.com with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.24) id 1AdU5g-0000fy-A6 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2004 06:44:16 -0600 Message-ID: <3FF95CBD.8060304@natzo.com> Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 07:46:53 -0500 From: Dany User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cpanel10.gzo.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - natzo.com Subject: FreeBSD AGP or Nvidia AGP? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 12:44:23 -0000 Running 5.2RC2 on a Epox 8K5A2+ motherboard I've experienced multiple hard reset problems while running simple process like compilation under KDE. The result was either a blank screen and reboot or frozen window. I don't know exactly where to look at in order to determine the problem. Dmesg doesn't show anything bad. If I understand correctly they are two ways of installing Nvidia graphic cards and using them with Nvidia drivers : using Nvidia AGP support or FreeBSD AGP support. I took the default one as described at the bottom of this email. What is the preferred method ? .... The one that would give the most stability (I don't really care about performance and fps). After those reboots and according to some posts, I changed my kernel config and commented the following two lines : #options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel #device apic # I/O APIC It didn't really help and I got the same hang up situations. So I've added hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" in /boot/device.hints and it looks like more stable but didn't have time to confirm it. Can this problem come from the AGP support selection I've made or is it more related to ACPI ? Now that I've disabled ACPI, should I enable APM in order to be able to turn off the PC without compromising stability ? Thanks Dany 1) Use the Nvidia AGP support -> cd /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver -> make install Add Option "NvAgp" "1" in XFree86config : and nvidia_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf 2) Use the FreeBSD AGP support -> cd /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver -> make WITH_FREEBSD_AGP=yes install Add Option "NvAgp" "2" in XFree86config : and AGP_LOAD="YES" in /boot/loader.conf nvidia_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf