From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 19 10:48:27 2009 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 6BFD4106564A for ; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:48:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steinex@nognu.de) Received: from mail-ew0-f222.google.com (mail-ew0-f222.google.com [209.85.219.222]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05E9E8FC19 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:48:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steinex@nognu.de) Received: by ewy22 with SMTP id 22so95134ewy.43 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:48:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.210.89.7 with SMTP id m7mr3747742ebb.77.1248000505934; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:48:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nognu.de (pD9EA8A71.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.234.138.113]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm8038880eyb.55.2009.07.19.03.48.24 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:48:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:48:26 +0200 From: Frank Steinborn To: Rafal Grodzinski Message-ID: <20090719104826.GE3558@nognu.de> References: <20090718163408.GA50723@nognu.de> <4A626470.6030702@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A626470.6030702@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Binary nVidia-driver with GeForce2 Integrated GPU 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: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:48:27 -0000 Rafal Grodzinski wrote: > Frank Steinborn wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> I have a box with a GeForce2 MX/MX400 onboard on an nForce-chipset and >> want to use the binary nVidia-driver with it. I have to use the legacy >> driver (96.43.13). It installs without problems, and the GPU gets >> detected properly: >> >> nvidia0: on vgapci0 >> vgapci0: child nvidia0 requested pci_enable_busmaster >> vgapci0: child nvidia0 requested pci_enable_io >> nvidia0: [GIANT-LOCKED] >> nvidia0: [ITHREAD] >> >> However, if I start X, strange things happen. The video is shown, but >> there are many artifacts and all looks kind of strange - it is >> unusable. I can see the following from the nVidia-driver in dmesg >> after X started: [ ... ] >> What I've done so far to track this down: >> >> - Tried the driver from ports (atm in version 96.43.11) and the one >> from the website (96.43.13). >> - installed compat5x (The nVidia page claims this is necessary). >> - I tried with agp-support from the nVidia-driver and with agp-support >> from the FreeBSD kernel. >> >> All that did not changed the observed beharviour. I would be more than >> happy if someone could provide me with a hint... > > Hello Frank, > > I'd advise you to try out different versions of nvidia driver from > ports, especially x11/nvidia-driver-71 as it's quite an old card. > > I have GeForce 6100 and if I use anything different than > x11/nvidia-driver-173 I get some random issues. > > If you still get issues with x11/nvidia-driver-71 I think that you > should check out some older drivers from nvidia web site. > > About your xorg.conf file I don't think that you need to have both > Option "DPMS" > and > HorizSync 30-60, > VertRefresh 50-76 > set at the same time. As I understand it DPMS means that graphics card > reads these information directly from screen so you don't have to set it > yourself. I've got only > Option "DPMS" > set and it works fine. > > > Rafal Rafal, thanks for your reply. I tried the 71-driver, and this panics my system instantly. So no luck here. Older 96 versions of the driver are not really usable, since they are not compatible with xorg-server-1.6. Cheers, Frank