From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 19 23:23:19 2007 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 491D216A419 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:23:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@areilly.bpa.nu) Received: from qsrv03sl.mx.bigpond.com (qsrv03sl.mx.bigpond.com [144.140.92.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C59EB13C518 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:23:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@areilly.bpa.nu) Received: from oaamta08sl.mx.bigpond.com ([124.188.162.219]) by omta01sl.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20071119120549.NRKL9168.omta01sl.mx.bigpond.com@oaamta08sl.mx.bigpond.com> for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:05:49 +0000 Received: from areilly.bpa.nu ([124.188.162.219]) by oaamta08sl.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20071119120549.JXQD304.oaamta08sl.mx.bigpond.com@areilly.bpa.nu> for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:05:49 +0000 Received: (qmail 62528 invoked by uid 501); 19 Nov 2007 12:03:04 -0000 Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:03:04 +1100 From: Andrew Reilly To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" Message-ID: <20071119120304.GA62159@duncan.reilly.home> References: <473F250F.2030903@gmail.com> <20071117.164853.1221560804.imp@bsdimp.com> <473F7EE7.4080405@gmail.com> <20071118000233.GA5820@kobe.laptop> <473FB515.5080907@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <473FB515.5080907@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "M. Warner Losh" Subject: Re: congrlations to the freebsd developers 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: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:23:19 -0000 > 3. The issues with nvidia kernel module on amd64 (alternativelly > does anyone know how hard it would be to get bettern 1024x768 with nv?) I used to be able to get nv to do 1280x1024, with my 6600LE graphics card. I could never convince it to do 1600x1200, the native resolution of my LCD panel, though. Claimed to be limited by BIOS setting, whatever that means. There was, and is, however, a funky booting issue: sometimes nv would not get the card set up right, and all I would see was blocky-wrong-raster-ish screen noise. That would go away if I switched to vesa mode (which has always worked reliably for me) and back again. Sadly that fix doesn't work since the last upgrade (from 7.2 to 7.3), seemingly, so I'm stuck with vesa at 1280x1024, which is tollerable for my purposes, given how fast the processors are. Actually, I don't have that at the moment, either: something broke GNOME at the ORB level, seemingly, after I upgraded to RELENG_7... I'm fighting with portupgrade at the moment... Hopefully it'll all come good again once it's been re-built... Cheers, -- Andrew