Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:50:34 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Mike O'Brien <mikeobrien@spamcop.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X.org 6.9 doesn't work with NVidia 7800 GTX (fwd) Message-ID: <43D8EFCA.8060505@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <200601261544.k0QFihQn000396@mr-protocol.dyndns.org>
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Mike O'Brien wrote: > I sent this to "freebsd-x11" and didn't hear a peep back, > so I'm widening the net. > > I'm running FreeBSD 6-STABLE, cvsupped as of last night. I upgraded > the ports collection to X.org 6.9 at the same time. Under the X > that ships with 6-RELEASE, in the ISO image, and under X.org 6.9, > the symptoms are the same. > > The hardware is an Athlon 4400+ CPU on an Asus motherboard and an > NVIDIA 7800 GTX video card. > > I'm not running the NVidia FreeBSD driver (yet), preferring to see > the VESA work first before stirring the pot. If I run X -probeonly, > I get a message that "module fbdev cannot be found". This message > is, however, almost unreadable because the probing of the video > card causes the console contrast to drop almost to zero. The room > has to be almost pitch-black before the remaining dim text can be > read. I have to reboot the machine to make the console brightness > and contrast normal again. > > Any takers on either of these problems? > > Mike O'Brien It might be worth trying the nvidia drivers even if VESA isn't working. My personal experience with the very recent FreeBSD nvidia drivers is that they are awesome.home | help
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