From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 17 10:57:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55CE116A580 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 10:57:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from agh@tpg.com.au) Received: from mail5.tpgi.com.au (mail5.tpgi.com.au [203.12.160.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2239D43D79 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 10:56:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from agh@tpg.com.au) X-TPG-Antivirus: Passed Received: from localhost.madcat (220-244-72-6.static.tpgi.com.au [220.244.72.6]) by mail5.tpgi.com.au (envelope-from agh@tpg.com.au) (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8HAulM0006671 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 17 Sep 2006 20:56:49 +1000 From: "Alastair G. Hogge" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 21:00:51 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609172100.52321.agh@tpg.com.au> Cc: elite_bizkit@hotmail.com Subject: Re: BFG 7650 GX2 can't find valid mode X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 10:57:00 -0000 On Sunday 17 September 2006 10:20, elite_bizkit@hotmail.com wrote: > Hello all, Hello, > I'm having a slight issue with my new FreeBSD box - when I test the > xorg.conf.new file that "Xorg -configure" creates I get an error that says > > (EE) NV(1): Cannot read V_BIOS (3) > (EE) NV(1): No valid modes found > > I searched around on the internet and found some modeline information for a > similar setup to mine which I tried > > without success. I then installed the latest FreeBSD nvidia drivers which, > after installing compat5x and running > > nvidia-xconfig, caused my machine to reboot every time I tried X -config on > the file. > > I found that I could stop my system from rebooting when I replaced Driver > "nvidia" with Driver "nv" in the Device > > sections in the config file but this took me back to square one. > > Finally I tried connecting the system up to an iiyama Vision Master 400 > (CRT) and had exactly the same problem :( > > Here is my current setup: > > Intel Duo 2 Core E6700 > 4GB of Corsair RAM Very cool > 260GB SATA HDD (1) - XP > 80GB SATA HDD (2) - FreeBSD Swap them around ;-) > BFG 7950 GX2 The FreeBSD NVIDIA kernel driver does not support GeForce cards above 7900GTX. If they did I would've bought a couple myself, instead I bought a cheap Forsa 7900GTX until there's support for the higher cards. There was a thread on one of the lists from zander(NVIDIA) about some needed functionality to improve PCIe, add SLI, and lots of other crap I have no understanding of. As for X.org, it also looks like it doesn't support your card :-( only supports upto the *7800* -Alastair