Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 22:41:10 -0400 From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Johan Pettersson <manlix@demonized.net> Subject: Re: nVidia FX Support? Message-ID: <20040505224110.egwww084ck8w8scc@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> In-Reply-To: <200405061102.57036.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <40982623.2090804@bellsouth.net> <409947B8.6050804@mitre.org> <20040505161811.ca8s4c88s48ckoos@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> <200405061102.57036.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Quoting Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 6 May 2004 05:48, Kenneth Culver wrote: >> > If it still hangs, or is unstable, you might try forcing the AGP down to >> > 4x or 2x. Many motherboards are unstable at 8x. >> >> I'm thinking it's because I had the XFree86-Server-Snap port installed... >> that nvidia driver wasn't designed to work with that server. Also, I have >> the acpi module loaded, and I've heard of that causing problems. The card >> works fine in 8x mode in windows, so I don't think that's the problem. > > The Windows drivers could have workarounds for broken AGP hardware > (ie the AGP > driver itself) > I don't think the AGP hardware is broken, but BSD can't seem to route the interrupt correctly for the AGP port. It cause the video card to be routed to IRQ 11 in FreeBSD, but in Windows, it is routed to irq 16. They should be the same in both OS's, and since it works in windows, I'm assuming it's FreeBSD that's broken. Ken
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