Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 02:55:51 -0700 From: Jeff Molofee <nehe@telus.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: anyone suffering with NV / xorg 7.4 issues Message-ID: <49842027.7010602@telus.net> In-Reply-To: <20090129222917.2F8731065703@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20090129222917.2F8731065703@hub.freebsd.org>
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I know most of you have already figured this out, and others have gone back to 7.3, but I thought I'd post what worked for me. I saw many people explain bits and pieces of the problem, but none of the bits and pieces helped me the last 3 days, until I put em all together (hard to do when you have to browse with LINKS. First issues first... I upgrade from 7.3 to 7.4 using portmanager -u, seemed to go without a hitch. I read UPDATING and followed all the instructions. Rebooted and everything was broken. I had everything from no screens, to no mouse, no keyboard, no X, no startx, wfb errors, you name it. I messed around with xorg.conf for hours!!! What I had to do was portmanager -u -p -l -y (thanks robert) - This brought all my ports back to a stable state (took ages) I build xorg-server without HAL at first, but this didn't matter, hal or not, it works fine (in the end I selected all 3 choices) I then grabbed the beta nvidia driver 180.22 from the nvidia web site - installed it with make install (couldn't get driver in ports to work) X -configure and nvidia-xconfig would not work for me so I took my old config and used it (will post below) - running X -configure resulted in 32 of everything (no idea why) By now I could get startx and X to launch X just fine, but gnome would not start at all (couldn't move mouse or type ... so it seems) At the top of my xorg.conf I had to add Option "AutoAddDevices" "off" (thx again robert)... for the longest time I was being an idiot and adding just AutoAddDevices "off" (reading man helped... duh) xorg.conf below (really stripped down) after this I did a reboot and everything is working with full 3D... hope this helps anyone still struggling :( Section "ServerFlags" Option "AutoAddDevices" "off" EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" EndSection Section "Files" EndSection Section "Module" Load "freetype" # Load "xtt" Load "extmod" Load "glx" Load "dbe" Load "record" Load "xtrap" Load "type1" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "Auto" Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "Monitor" ### Comment all HorizSync and VertRefresh values to use DDC: Identifier "Monitor0" HorizSync 31.5 - 57.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 100.0 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "nvidia" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection
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