Inspiron 8600 having X troubles

[Shawn Nock]

I have a new Latitude D800 with the same symptoms... I had suspected 
that the agp chipset was not supported (sysctl reports that agp is 
present but "disabled", using either agp.ko linked or NvAGP drivers), 
but I never tried under 5.2.

Which mobile card and northbridge do you have? Mine is Go5650 on intel 
and is "detected by nvidia.ko" as such, but perhaps the implementation 
for this card is flawed.

Cheers,
Shawn







Ben Nell wrote:

>Hello All:
>
>I recently upgraded my Dell Inspiron 8600 to fBSD 5.3 from 5.2. 
>Although there have been a few problems with software that I chalked
>up to issues with the new version of gcc, my main problem has been
>using X.org.
>
>I had previously been using XFree86.  After the upgrade, I copied my
>functional XF86Config file to /etc/xorg.conf.  The machine will freeze
>completely, before switching to a graphical mode.  ctrl+alt+backspace
>will not back out of  it, and I am unable to even SSH into the
>machine.  Perhaps the strangest issue is that after I hard reboot,
>there is no log in /var/log generated and my xorg.conf file is
>truncated to an empty text file.  When no conf file is provided, X
>will load a generic gui.
>
>I have a mobile geforce card.  I used the Nvidia drivers installed
>from ports.  I uninstalled/reinstalled the drivers after the upgrade.
>
>Perhaps this post is on the wrong list, but does anyone have any suggestions?
>
>BN
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