From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Thu Jan 26 15:50:41 2006
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
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 6BA3316A42C;
	Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:50:41 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu)
Received: from sccmmhc92.asp.att.net (sccmmhc92.asp.att.net [204.127.203.212])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C711A43D48;
	Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:50:36 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu)
Received: from [10.0.0.4] (12-216-248-146.client.mchsi.com[12.216.248.146])
	by sccmmhc92.asp.att.net (sccmmhc92) with ESMTP
	id <20060126155035m9200am6tpe>; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:50:35 +0000
Message-ID: <43D8EFCA.8060505@math.missouri.edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:50:34 -0600
From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060122
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Mike O'Brien <mikeobrien@spamcop.net>
References: <200601261544.k0QFihQn000396@mr-protocol.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200601261544.k0QFihQn000396@mr-protocol.dyndns.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
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-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:50:41 -0000

Mike O'Brien wrote:
>     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

It might be worth trying the nvidia drivers even if VESA isn't working. 
  My personal experience with the very recent FreeBSD nvidia drivers is 
that they are awesome.