Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:29:04 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: mikeobrien@spamcop.net (Mike O'Brien) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X.org 6.9 doesn't work with NVidia 7800 GTX (fwd) Message-ID: <20060126192904.C289B4503E@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:44:43 PST." <200601261544.k0QFihQn000396@mr-protocol.dyndns.org>
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> From: mikeobrien@spamcop.net (Mike O'Brien) > Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:44:43 -0800 > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > > 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. I have the same chipset and CPU on an MSI mobo and had exactly the same problem. Right down to the very low contrast video. I think VESA is broken with this chipset. I installed nvidia-driver and nvidia-xconfig. It worked immediately. nvidia-xconfig modifies the existing xorg.conf (or XF85Config) to work with the nvidia driver. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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