Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 15:16:44 -0700 From: "Darren Spruell" <phatbuckett@gmail.com> To: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nvidia-driver rebooting machine on X startup Message-ID: <839aec700709061516x52866bd0u903adbbd16a3f1ff@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200709062306.42825.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> References: <839aec700709061310m44a1f0f8p55fd7706ed3c02af@mail.gmail.com> <200709062306.42825.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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On 9/6/07, Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> wrote: > On Thursday 06 September 2007 22:10:42 Darren Spruell wrote: > > Wondering if this is a known issue, or if anyone has suggestions to > > get it working...? > > > > Running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 SMP i386. > > > > I installed nvidia-driver-100.14.11 from ports (Sep. 5 snapshot), > > Linux compatibility enabled. After loading modules 'linux' and > > 'nvidia', I do: > > > > # X -configure > > # X -config /root/xorg.conf.new > > > > At this point the system spontaneously reboots. 'X -configure' runs > > fine and produces a configuration without issue, but the reboot > > occcurs when launching X. Nothing is output to screen (it flickers as > > if starting X), and nothing is written to /var/log/Xorg.0.log. I do > > get the same behavior if running 'xorgcfg'. > > > > Card info: > > > > "NV41 [Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI] rev 162" > > > > nvidia0@pci7:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x029b10de chip=0x00cd10de > > rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 > > vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' > > class = display > > subclass = VGA > > > Section "Device" > > Identifier "Card0" > > Driver "nvidia" > > VendorName "nVidia Corporation" > > BoardName "NV41 [Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI]" > > BusID "PCI:7:0:0" > > EndSection > > Removing BusID do anything? All those Displays sounds a bit much too. I > *strongly* recommend using nvidia-xconfig (x11/nvidia-config). Commenting BusID has the same effect - prompt reboot. The Display subsections are pretty standard for every X configuration I've ever used; why would they cause a problem in this case? > And anything /var/log/Xorg.0.log? Using nvAgp or FreeBSD Agp? No, nothing gets to the log before reboot occurs. Not using either of nvAgp or FreeBSD Agp, that I'm aware of. I did not enable FREEBSD_AGP at build time. DS
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