Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 11:29:02 -0700 From: "Tabor Kelly" <tkelly@pdxmax.com> To: <atk2@arctic.org>, <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Athalon XP + Asus A7V333 + NVidia TNT2 + XFree86 problem Message-ID: <029f01c20b2c$8bd12000$1e01a8c0@elcoolmagnifico> References: <20020603083528.26872.qmail@twinlark.arctic.org>
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You can read through this thread (http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/thread.php3?subject=Athlon+XP+with+NVIDIA+AG P+problem&list=160) for more info. Apparently it has to do with the combination of the Asus motherboard and the Nvidia video card. Both manufacturers push bus timing to the limits, and sometimes things go *CLUNK*. -Tabor Kelly ----- Original Message ----- From: <atk2@arctic.org> To: <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>; <tkelly@pdxmax.com> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 1:35 AM Subject: Re: Athalon XP + Asus A7V333 + NVidia TNT2 + XFree86 problem > Unrelated but I have the same board with a PCI 3dfx 3/2000 card. Curious if > I had no problems because this card is PCI or because it is 3dfx ? > > Btw I think you can apply the patch with the patch program... > > ||From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 2 22:52:51 2002 > > ||Hi, > > || I just installed FreeBSD RELEASE 4.5 on my new Athalon. It is an XP 1700 > ||on an Asus A7V333 motherboard. It has 512MB of ram and a ~40gb partition on > ||a ~80gb drive. It has a Riva TNT2 32MB AGP video card. FreeBSD appears to > ||work fine, but I can't get XFree86 to work. Whenever I run > ||'XFree86 -configure' my system reboots. Also, if I configure XFree86 with > ||xf86config and the run XWrapper-4, my system does the > ||same thing (reboots). When I run xf86config I select the Riva TNT2 video > ||card and verified that it was using the 'nv' server. > > ||I have tried the binary distribution of XFree86 4.2.0 on xfree86.org aswell > ||as the x11/XFree86-4 port. They both cause the same behavior. When the > ||system gets done rebooting I do not have an XFree86 log file in /var/log. > > ||I understand that disabling MTRRs can help, and that it can be done with > ||this patch: (http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/mtrr.patch) compliments > ||of John Baldwin's. > > ||However, I have no idea where the patch goes. Does the patch go in the > ||XFree86 code, or the FreeBSD kernel code? Is this patch going to be included > ||in future releases of FreeBSD? > > ||Thank You for any assistance that you can provide. > > ||-Tabor Kelly > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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