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Date:      Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:22:42 -0800 (PST)
From:      Super Biscuit <super_bisquit@yahoo.com>
To:        "Daniel C. Dowse" <dcdowse@gmx.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: need help with nvidia drivers
Message-ID:  <369881.67353.qm@web110106.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20091104145009.89d4b598.dcdowse@gmx.net>

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I downloaded and installed the driver from nvidia with better results.
Now, I have a problem of a broken screen and a workable area of 320x240.
I added the the Modes to the xorg.conf file with no change in results.


--- On Wed, 11/4/09, Daniel C. Dowse <dcdowse@gmx.net> wrote:

From: Daniel C. Dowse <dcdowse@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: need help with nvidia drivers
To: "Super Biscuit" <super_bisquit@yahoo.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 1:50 PM


Hi=20

in xorg.conf

Section "Module"
=A0 =A0 Load=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=A0=A0"dbe"
=A0 =A0 Load=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=A0=A0"extmod"
=A0 =A0 Load=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=A0=A0"type1"
=A0 =A0 Load=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=A0=A0"freetype"
=A0 =A0 Load=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=A0=A0"glx"
=A0 =A0 Load=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=A0=A0"dri" <-- REMOVE THIS !
=20
Have you checked out this link before ?
http://us.download.nvidia.com/freebsd/173.14.12/README/index.html


On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 04:29:14 -0800 (PST)
Super Biscuit <super_bisquit@yahoo.com> wrote:

> The reason for multiple posts and the titles is because The original post=
 was considered spam by the freebsd-questions mailing list and webmaster. I=
t had all of the relevant information in it.
> Next time you may want ask me why I do something before making an uninfor=
med and asinine response.
>=20
> Here is the information you asked for: %uname -a
> FreeBSD pocket-peoples.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0=
: Fri May=A0 1 08:49:13 UTC 2009=A0=A0=A0=A0 root@walker.cse.buffalo.edu:/u=
sr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC=A0 i386
>=20
>=20
> --- On Wed, 11/4/09, Daniel C. Dowse <dcdowse@gmx.net> wrote:
>=20
> From: Daniel C. Dowse <dcdowse@gmx.net>
> Subject: Re: need help with nvidia drivers
> To: "Super Biscuit" <super_bisquit@yahoo.com>
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 9:52 AM
>=20
> On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:55:34 -0800 (PST)
> Super Biscuit <super_bisquit@yahoo.com> wrote:
>=20
> > I'm not able to use the glx settings on my computer.
> > RGB comes back as a double buffer error.
> >=20

best regards

daniel

--=20
[ The only reality is virtual ]=A0 =A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0=20
=0A=0A=0A      



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