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Date:      Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:20:39 -0600
From:      Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
To:        davidb@boothscientific.com
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 7.0 freezes with nvidia card
Message-ID:  <4770A137.4070600@math.missouri.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200712242343.34495.davidb@boothscientific.com>
References:  <47706D1C.5010201@math.missouri.edu> <200712242343.34495.davidb@boothscientific.com>

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David Booth wrote:
> On Monday 24 December 2007, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>> I have a Dell D800 Latitude laptop.  If I use FreeBSD 7.0, and xorg
>> with the nv driver, when I exit X, sometimes it simply freezes.  I
>> tried it with the vesa driver. and the problem didn't seem to
>> happen, but the vesa driver is unable to get the 1680x1050
>> resolution of my monitor.
>>
>> I sent a similar message a while back because I thought the ndis
>> driver was also involved.  But I have since disabled ndis. 
>> (However when ndis is on, the problem is worse.)
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Stephen
>> _______________________________________________
> 
> Have you tried the Nvidia driver from ports/x11?  It works well for me 
> on my Dell I8600.

That is what I was originally using.  But that also froze.  I switched 
to nv in hopes that the problem would go away.




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