From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 28 02:59:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D69716A420; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 02:59:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikeobrien@spamcop.net) Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [63.240.77.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F3BD43D46; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 02:59:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikeobrien@spamcop.net) Received: from mr-protocol.dyndns.org ([24.130.255.233]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2006012802591901300ok111e>; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 02:59:19 +0000 Received: from mr-protocol.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mr-protocol.dyndns.org (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k0S2xHaH000435; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:59:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikeobrien@spamcop.net) Message-Id: <200601280259.k0S2xHaH000435@mr-protocol.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Kevin Oberman" From: "Mike O'Brien" In-Reply-To: Message from "Kevin Oberman" of "Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:00:01 PST." <20060127180001.B944145084@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:59:17 -0800 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X.org 6.9 doesn't work with NVidia 7800 GTX (fwd) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 02:59:26 -0000 I did get X.org running on 6-STABLE. As you have mentioned, starting X via "X -probeonly" with an Asus SLI motherboard and an NVidia 7800 GTX video card fails multiply; the internal configuration tries and fails to load module "fbdev", meanwhile, the probe of the card dials the contrast of the syscons consoles down to near-zero levels. However, running "Xorg -configure" succeeds where the other fails. All modules are loaded, an x.conf file is written and the contrast is not blown. On my system, the monitor is able to support the highest resolution specified in the configuration file, though the text is unreadably small. Therefore, modulo tuning of the acceptable modes, X is now working on this configuration. Thanks for all your help! Mike O'Brien