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From: Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.Berkeley.EDU>
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On Oct 01, "Justin Smith" wrote:

> MY system:
> FreeBSD jsmith.org 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #0: Wed Oct  1
> 13:55:06 EDT 2003     jsmith@jsmith.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC 
> i386
> 
> 
> Whenever I try to use the nividia driver for X windows, my system
> reboots. Any suggestions?

ME TOO!

dorine#~#313>dmesg | grep agp
agp0: <Intel 82855 host to AGP bridge> mem 0xec000000-0xefffffff at device
0.0 on pci0
dorine#~#314>dmesg | grep nvidia
Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/nvidia.ko" at 0xc0989278.
nvidia0: <GeForce4 4200 Go> mem
0xf0000000-0xf3ffffff,0xfc000000-0xfcffffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1

dorine#~#317>uname -a
FreeBSD foo 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #1: Mon
Sep 29 19:40:51 PDT 2003 root@foo:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/dorine  i386

I tried for the serial console (boot -h), but it didn't seem to work (is
that currently broken?)

I'm trying to get the binary driver going because I can't get my laptop to
drive an external monitor.  Please see my tale of woe here:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2003-September/001930.html

Thanks,

Mike