Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 06:26:43 +0200 From: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Scott Parrish <wsparrish@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: unable to boot with Nvidia AGP graphics card Message-ID: <200905070626.43652.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> In-Reply-To: <BLU148-W11E4E155E27C6E186FE6F5A8670@phx.gbl> References: <BLU148-W11E4E155E27C6E186FE6F5A8670@phx.gbl>
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On Thursday 07 May 2009 04:35:30 Scott Parrish wrote: > Hi all, > Recently my PCI graphics card failed on my Dell Dimension 4100. I replaced > it with a known good card I had lying around: an Nvidia GeForce 3 TI200 > with an AGP interface. My FreeBSD installation will not boot with this > graphics card. The boot loader hangs at the twirling baton as follows: > /boot/kernel/acpi.ko text=0x43698 data=0x23c0+0x10f0 > syms=[0x4+0x7ba0+0x4+0xa828] > \ > > I'm running 7.1-RELEASE generic kernel. > Anyone ever see anything like this before? Any ideas on how I can debug? Most common cause is a faulty hints file, since you can't install from CD either, the GENERIC hints aren't working for this system. You could try 7.2- RELEASE cd and file a PR otherwise. The dmesg from linux would be useful information in this PR. > Is there anything I can do with the loader prompt to see what is happening > when this occurs? The keyboard still seems responsive when this happens > (the caps-lock, num-lock, etc. still work). It is almost as if the boot > loader is unsure how to send output to the AGP bus. You can disable the AGP at loader prompt, similar to how one would do that in the hints file: hint.agp.0.disabled="1" -- Mel
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