nvidia-driver weirdness

[Christopher Illies]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 02:01:02PM -0800, Remington L wrote:
> This is a fresh install as of three days ago. I can try NvAGP 0 but
> what point would that do if it disables AGP?

Well, in my case it did solve the problem of xorg locking up. It is
something you can try out, maybe it works, maybe it doesn't. The card
still works with AGP disabled, only a bit slower, but ... it works and
does not lock up anymore. 

I don't know much about hardware, but I guess there some problem with
Nvidia working together with certain AGP chipsets on FreeBSD/Linux,
but not on  Windows. Strange ....

Anyway, your problem might be the same, might be diffenrent, disabling
AGP might help, or it might not, just try it out. I would be
interested to hear whether it worked, though.

Christopher

> 
> On 11/28/05, Louis LeBlanc <FreeBSD at keyslapper.net> wrote:
> > On 11/27/05 10:37 PM, Remington sat at the `puter and typed:
> > > FreeBSD  6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #1: Sat Nov 26 23:19:14 PST
> > > 2005     root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MACHINE  i386
> > >
> > > nvidia-driver-1.0.7676_1
> > > All ports current as of a few hours ago. No special make flags.
> > >
> > > Im sure this is a repeat post or I'm missing something stupid. Xorg
> > > keeps randlonly locking and hard rebooting my machine when the nvidia
> > > xorg driver is loaded. It can keep running for a few minutes, or take a
> > > few hours before the lockup can occur.
> > >
> > > I have commented out device agp out of my kernel config, and likewise
> > > kept it in there, both with no luck. I've also tried NvAGP set to both
> > > 1, and 2 with no luck
> > >
> > >         Driver      "nvidia"
> > >         VendorName  "NVIDIA"
> > >         BoardName   "Geforce 6800 GT"
> > >         Option      "NvAGP" "2"
> > >         BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
> > >
> > > Any assitance would be great, after an extensive google search I got
> > > nothing.
> >
> > Is this an upgrade, or a new install of 6.0?  Many of the threads I've
> > read regarding the Nvidia driver with 6.0 suggested that the Nvidia
> > driver be rebuilt after the 6.0 upgrade.  In fact, I believe rebuilding
> > all ports was recommended, which is why I've decided to invest in a
> > second hard drive to do a new install.
> >
> > I don't know if it will help, but my own config is pretty much the
> > same - with a couple extras to omit the logo splash, accelerate
> > rendering, etc.  Of course, I'm still running 5.4.
> >
> > Try rebuilding the driver from ports - that's probably your best bet.
> >
> > HTH
> > Lou
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