Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 11:01:38 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Shawn Nock <nock@email.arizona.edu> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Inspiron 8600 having X troubles Message-ID: <41C06DF2.90105@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <41C063D1.7060500@email.arizona.edu> References: <9cf39d6041215071257517c4a@mail.gmail.com> <41C063D1.7060500@email.arizona.edu>
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I could never get the nvidia drivers to work on my Lattitude D800. But the nv driver seems to work fine. Shawn Nock wrote: > I have a new Latitude D800 with the same symptoms... I had suspected > that the agp chipset was not supported (sysctl reports that agp is > present but "disabled", using either agp.ko linked or NvAGP drivers), > but I never tried under 5.2. > > Which mobile card and northbridge do you have? Mine is Go5650 on intel > and is "detected by nvidia.ko" as such, but perhaps the implementation > for this card is flawed. > > Cheers, > Shawn > > > > > > > > Ben Nell wrote: > >> Hello All: >> >> I recently upgraded my Dell Inspiron 8600 to fBSD 5.3 from 5.2. >> Although there have been a few problems with software that I chalked >> up to issues with the new version of gcc, my main problem has been >> using X.org. >> >> I had previously been using XFree86. After the upgrade, I copied my >> functional XF86Config file to /etc/xorg.conf. The machine will freeze >> completely, before switching to a graphical mode. ctrl+alt+backspace >> will not back out of it, and I am unable to even SSH into the >> machine. Perhaps the strangest issue is that after I hard reboot, >> there is no log in /var/log generated and my xorg.conf file is >> truncated to an empty text file. When no conf file is provided, X >> will load a generic gui. >> >> I have a mobile geforce card. I used the Nvidia drivers installed >> from ports. I uninstalled/reinstalled the drivers after the upgrade. >> >> Perhaps this post is on the wrong list, but does anyone have any >> suggestions? >> >> BN >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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