Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 17:28:02 -0700 From: "Darren Spruell" <phatbuckett@gmail.com> To: "Jona Joachim" <jaj@hcl-club.lu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nvidia-driver rebooting machine on X startup Message-ID: <839aec700709061728x77f91fe6td50fa88fa8b6caf4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070907012958.70a96fe4@spaceman.my.domain> References: <839aec700709061310m44a1f0f8p55fd7706ed3c02af@mail.gmail.com> <20070907012958.70a96fe4@spaceman.my.domain>
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On 9/6/07, Jona Joachim <jaj@hcl-club.lu> wrote: > On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 13:10:42 -0700 > "Darren Spruell" <phatbuckett@gmail.com> 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'. > > Did you reinstall/upgrade X after having installed nvidia-driver? > X actually overwrites libraries that nvidia-driver installs so you have > to reinstall nvidia-driver every time you upgrade X. > I remember having had some bad crashes some time ago because X overwrote > nvidia GLX libraries. > > Best regards, > Jona > Nope - driver was the most recent thing installed. I'm looking into AGP options as suggested earlier... didn't realize that this _needed_ AGP support to function. -- Darren Spruell phatbuckett@gmail.com
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