Inspiron 8600 having X troubles

[Igor Karpov]

Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> I could never get the nvidia drivers to work on my Lattitude D800.  But 
> the nv driver seems to work fine.
> 
> 
> 
> Shawn Nock wrote:
> 
>> 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

I have my Latitude D800 near me, running the latest xorg and nvidia 
driver at 1920x1600. FreeBSD-5.3-p2. No problem at all.