From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 10 12:42:01 2005 Return-Path: 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 23CEB16A4CF for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:42:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl (wcborstel.demon.nl [82.161.134.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DF4843D53 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:42:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jorn@wcborstel.nl) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.wcborstel.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FEBF4297; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:42:43 +0100 (CET) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (www.wcborstel.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 03734-08; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:42:38 +0100 (CET) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.wcborstel.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9053B412D; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:42:38 +0100 (CET) From: "Jorn Argelo" To: craig.freebsd@online.de, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:42:38 +0100 Message-Id: <20050110124150.M2588@wcborstel.nl> In-Reply-To: <41E261E9.5040800@online.de> References: <41E261E9.5040800@online.de> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 2.41 20040926 X-OriginatingIP: 82.161.134.53 (jorn) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mail.wcborstel.nl Subject: Re: nvidia driver problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:42:01 -0000 On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:07:21 +0100, craig wrote > hi all, > > i am having a problem getting the nvidia-provided freebsd drivers to > work correctly. > specifically, although the bsd-provided nv drivers work (albeit without > any accel), when i switch to the nvidia-provided nvidia drivers, xorg > loads into 8bit colour mode - which looks terrible! > > looking in /var/log/Xorg.0.log doesnt provide any clues (to me, at > least!). there are no terrible errors or dire warnings that seem related. > (find attached) > > and, as best as i can tell, my /etc/X11/xorg.conf seems just fine. > (also find attached) > > what else would be useful to tell... > i have an Intel 2.4Ghz on a Gigabyte GT motherboard, with 1GB ram. > the card is an nVidia GeForce4Ti with 128MB > > also, i have removed agp from my kernel. > and i have also attached sysctl -a hw.nvidia output Adding the following in the screen section of xorg.conf might do the trick: DefaultDepth 24 > > any help would be greatly appreciated! > > much ta, > > -- > craig@small-pla.net