From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 26 15:44:47 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2285116A420; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:44:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikeobrien@spamcop.net) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.202.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0F7743D58; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:44:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikeobrien@spamcop.net) Received: from mr-protocol.dyndns.org ([24.130.255.233]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2006012615444501200n5cjne>; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:44:45 +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 k0QFihQn000396; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:44:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikeobrien@spamcop.net) Message-Id: <200601261544.k0QFihQn000396@mr-protocol.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.0.4 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: mikeobrien@spamcop.net (Mike O'Brien) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:44:43 -0800 Cc: Subject: X.org 6.9 doesn't work with NVidia 7800 GTX (fwd) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:44:47 -0000 I sent this to "freebsd-x11" and didn't hear a peep back, so I'm widening the net. I'm running FreeBSD 6-STABLE, cvsupped as of last night. I upgraded the ports collection to X.org 6.9 at the same time. Under the X that ships with 6-RELEASE, in the ISO image, and under X.org 6.9, the symptoms are the same. The hardware is an Athlon 4400+ CPU on an Asus motherboard and an NVIDIA 7800 GTX video card. I'm not running the NVidia FreeBSD driver (yet), preferring to see the VESA work first before stirring the pot. If I run X -probeonly, I get a message that "module fbdev cannot be found". This message is, however, almost unreadable because the probing of the video card causes the console contrast to drop almost to zero. The room has to be almost pitch-black before the remaining dim text can be read. I have to reboot the machine to make the console brightness and contrast normal again. Any takers on either of these problems? Mike O'Brien ------- End of Forwarded Message