Re: FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT

2009-01-10 Thread Giuseppe Pagnoni
...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:11 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT To: Pieter de Goeje pie...@degoeje.nl Dear Pieter, thanks for the information. Unfortunately, putting the line hw.physmem=3G in /boot/loader.conf as you suggested does not prevent

Re: FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT

2009-01-09 Thread Giuseppe Pagnoni
-- From: Giuseppe Pagnoni gpagn...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:11 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT To: Pieter de Goeje pie...@degoeje.nl Dear Pieter, thanks for the information. Unfortunately, putting the line hw.physmem=3G in /boot/loader.conf as you

Re: FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT

2009-01-08 Thread Pieter de Goeje
How much memory do you have? Freebsd/Nvidia doesn't work with 4Gigs of memory OR PAE enabled kernels. Nvidia's forums have lots more information regarding this. I'm not sure of the internals exactly, but the amount of onboard memory plus the memory that comes with the card can't

Re: FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT

2009-01-08 Thread Giuseppe Pagnoni
-- Forwarded message -- From: Giuseppe Pagnoni gpagn...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:11 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT To: Pieter de Goeje pie...@degoeje.nl Dear Pieter, thanks for the information. Unfortunately, putting the line hw.physmem

FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT

2009-01-06 Thread Giuseppe Pagnoni
Dear all, I have just installed FreeBSD 7.1 Release on a machine with a GeForce 8500 GT (I think this is the card, but more about that later...) and an LCD screen with a native resolution of 1680 x 1050. Xorg works fine with the standard nv driver. However, if I try to install the

Re: FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT

2009-01-06 Thread Paul Procacci
Giuseppe Pagnoni wrote: Dear all, I have just installed FreeBSD 7.1 Release on a machine with a GeForce 8500 GT (I think this is the card, but more about that later...) and an LCD screen with a native resolution of 1680 x 1050. Xorg works fine with the standard nv driver. However, if I try to

Re: FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT

2009-01-06 Thread Giuseppe Pagnoni
Hello, well that is interesting. I do have 4 Gigs of RAM but I thought that the nvidia driver would not work only if the 64 bit version of FreeBSD was installed. I installed the i386 version, so I assumed that I was just wasting some memory. In case I would want to use the nvidia driver, would

Re: FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT

2009-01-06 Thread Paul Procacci
Giuseppe Pagnoni wrote: Hello, well that is interesting. I do have 4 Gigs of RAM but I thought that the nvidia driver would not work only if the 64 bit version of FreeBSD was installed. I installed the i386 version, so I assumed that I was just wasting some memory. In case I would want to

Re: FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT

2009-01-06 Thread Paul Procacci
Paul Procacci wrote: Giuseppe Pagnoni wrote: Hello, well that is interesting. I do have 4 Gigs of RAM but I thought that the nvidia driver would not work only if the 64 bit version of FreeBSD was installed. I installed the i386 version, so I assumed that I was just wasting some memory. In

Re: FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT

2009-01-06 Thread Giuseppe Pagnoni
Dear Paul, thank you very much for your help, that surely clarifies things. best giuseppe On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:51 AM, Paul Procacci pproca...@datapipe.com wrote: Paul Procacci wrote: Giuseppe Pagnoni wrote: Hello, well that is interesting. I do have 4 Gigs of RAM but I thought