Inspiron 8600 having X troubles

[Shawn Nock]

Yeah, I've heard reports that the D800 with the Go42xx work well with 
the drive it is some combination of the Go5650 and the differing 
northbride on the slightly newer models that have the problem...

I just had to have the "upgraded" graphics package....

Cheers,
Shawn

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Shawn Nock
Broadcast Engineer, KUAT-TV
Tucson, AZ

Igor Karpov wrote:

> 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.
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