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Date:      Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:51:04 +0000
From:      Daniel Leal <dleal@webvolution.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   xorg and nvidia
Message-ID:  <499018A8.4080907@webvolution.net>

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Hi everyone!

I am trying to convince my girlfriend to use freebsd as a desktop in her 
(not so) old toshiba S2450-201 laptop. I use it in my toshiba A200 
laptop and it works fine.
I just install it in her laptop with a 30GB disk I have... Installation 
was fine. This laptop as a "nvidia geforce4 420 go" graphics board with 
32MB.
The setup of xorg.conf was made through "Xorg -configure". I tested with 
startx and it worked. Then I installed the nvidia driver. I had to try 
all 3 driver versions and the only one that worked was 
"nvidia-driver-71xx". Then reboot and then I run "nvidia-xconfig". And 
startx... great, it worked! The nvidia logo appeared in the screen 
during xorg startup. Fine! Then I installed nvidia-settings. But when I 
try to run it it complains that it appear that I not using the NVIDIA X 
driver. But I am!!
It also said that NV-CONTROL extension version 1.6 is too old and the 
minimum required version is 1.11.
In my xorg.conf I have 1024x768 resolution, but xorg is with 800x600.
I also dont have the VSR and HSR for this laptop. I just cant find it 
anywhere...

Can someone help me with this please?

Here is my xorg.conf:

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (root@Dinamite)  Sat Feb  7 22:24:54 WET 2009

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath         "/usr/local/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath      "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "record"
    Load           "xtrap"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName      "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"

        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "SWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "HWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoAccel"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShadowFB"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "UseFBDev"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Rotate"                    # [<str>]
        #Option     "VideoKey"                  # <i>
        #Option     "FlatPanel"                 # [<bool>]
        #Option     "FPDither"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "CrtcNumber"                # <i>
        #Option     "FPScale"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "FPTweak"                   # <i>
        #Option     "DualHead"                  # [<bool>]
    Identifier     "Card0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "nVidia Corporation"
    BoardName      "NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go]"
EndSection

Section "Screen"

    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Card0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    16
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       16
        Modes      "1024x768"
    EndSubSection
EndSection





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