From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 15 17:01:44 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F2CD16A4CE for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:01:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccmmhc91.asp.att.net (sccmmhc91.asp.att.net [204.127.203.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9842443D2F for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:01:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from [10.0.0.4] (12-216-243-9.client.mchsi.com[12.216.243.9]) by sccmmhc91.asp.att.net (sccmmhc91) with ESMTP id <20041215170140m91000d8hfe>; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:01:40 +0000 Message-ID: <41C06DF2.90105@math.missouri.edu> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 11:01:38 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041205 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Shawn Nock References: <9cf39d6041215071257517c4a@mail.gmail.com> <41C063D1.7060500@email.arizona.edu> In-Reply-To: <41C063D1.7060500@email.arizona.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Ben Nell cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Inspiron 8600 having X troubles X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:01:44 -0000 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" > >