Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 20:36:03 +0800 From: Henry Hu <henry.hu.sh@gmail.com> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X.org nv driver (xf86-video-nv-2.1.13) && Quadro FX 770M && dual screens Message-ID: <53a1e0710906010536r2f6c7dc4u502335f6f3e4bacc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090601122649.GA2902@current.Sisis.de> References: <20090530140335.GA4500@current.Sisis.de> <53a1e0710905311219h2e7fe9c5o4ffb913e4902226f@mail.gmail.com> <20090601053306.GA1801@current.Sisis.de> <20090601122649.GA2902@current.Sisis.de>
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On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote: > El d=EDa Monday, June 01, 2009 a las 07:33:06AM +0200, Matthias Apitz esc= ribi=F3: > >> El d=EDa Monday, June 01, 2009 a las 03:19:49AM +0800, Henry Hu escribi= =F3: >> >> > You may try the nvidia driver, since I know that you can use >> > nvidia-settings to setup such things easily. >> >> Thanks for your feedback. But I'm running 8-CURRENT and it seems that >> the drivers at http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html (the latest >> version is 180.51 there) doesn not support -CURRENT and the kmod of the >> version in the port /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver (180.44) let X create a >> config file fine with X -configure but if you launch X with the created >> config file it hardlocks the system. > > I've searched a while the FreeBSD forum of the nvidia driver at > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=3D47 > and learned that the lock is caused by the huge amount of memory my > laptop has (4 GByte) and one needs a setting in /boot/loader.conf of > > machdep.disable_mtrrs=3D1 > > with this all is fine and X comes up as it should. > > The actual version is 180.60 and does not compile on CURRENT. One must > disable the check for this version in > NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-180.60/src/nv-freebsd.h: > > /* > #if __FreeBSD_version >=3D 800000 > #error This driver does not support FreeBSD 8.x/-CURRENT! > #endif > */ > > then it compiles and installs fine. Oh, I've forgotten the problem about large memory. By the way, since you said that the nvidia driver works well on 8-CURRENT, maybe I would upgrade to 8-CURRENT soon as it seems that there are many new features there. Have you tried 3D applications? Do they work well? > > As well the nvidia-settings must be compiled directly from the source > because the one in the ports has some library conflict. > > Thanks for your hint again > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0matthias > -- > Matthias Apitz > t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 > e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/ > People who hate Microsoft Windows use Linux but people who love UNIX use = FreeBSD. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Cheers, Henry
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