From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 10 15:57:52 2003 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 CF7BD37B401 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 15:57:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow057o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FF1E43FB1 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 15:57:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jfm@blueyonder.co.uk) Received: from lexx ([62.31.198.203]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Mon, 10 Feb 2003 23:57:46 +0000 From: John Murphy To: "Aslak Evang" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FBSD 5.0, Geforce 440 Go, KDE3.1 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 23:57:46 +0000 Organization: poor Reply-To: jfm@blueyonder.co.uk Message-ID: References: <00c401c2ce17$9c135ec0$3800000a@LAPDANCE> In-Reply-To: <00c401c2ce17$9c135ec0$3800000a@LAPDANCE> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.9/32.560 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Aslak Evang" wrote: >I installed FBSD 5 on my Toshiba laptop a week ago. I've installed KDE = 3.1 >and I'm using the NVIDIA drivers with X. At, what seems to me like, = totally >random times, the system locks up hard and needs to be switched off and = on >again to work. I've just tried the driver on a 5.0 desktop with nVidia Ti4200 and I get similar lock-ups. I also find that I get no display after shutting down KDE, so it's back to the nv driver for now. (Tried turning ACPI off = etc.) There's good info and FAQ at: http://www.thirteenandtwo.org/nvidia/faq.html >I know the Nvidia drivers doesn't support 5.0, but if I use the regular = NV >drivers i get a 2cm wide black line on the right side of my screen... Have you tried xvidtune? I'm not sure about using it on a laptop display = though. John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message