Re: experiences with the beta nvidia driver
On 9/27/07, Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last night I mentioned it is now avaible... has any one tried it with anything near this combo: P-35 Chipset GeForce 5200 GT (PCI) 7-CURRENT The reason for asking is when I installed it the kernel reconizes my card but Xorg (7.3) doesn't recognize it (same as before the beta) BTW it does not implement --enable-all-gpus it seems right now I'll be testing it tomorrow, with a PCI 5200 and a PCI-E 7100(?), but with 6.2. I unfortunately am one of the users who simply gets a reboot when x starts with the driver that's currently in ports, so I'm hoping I can can at least get further than that. --falz ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell Servers and FreeBSD
On 9/26/07, Tim Kellers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations or experience with any of the newer Dell servers (2900, 2950 for example) and FreeBSD 6.2 in a production environment? My old Dell 2400 hardware is quickly expiring and I need to replace it with something that will support FreeBSD 6.2 and have enough horsepower to host a substantial (50 or so) number of concurrent Moodle logins. The database (pgsql) is already on another server so I won't be chewing up server resources by hosting a database, too. We have many many 2950, 1950, 860, etc servers running FreeBSD. 6.2 without issue. Many of which are in a fairly taxing environment (webmail cluster with 25k users), as well as other purposes. I've only run across one issue, and it was on an earlier one. This was related more to the raid controller than anything, and required some 'camcontrol' setting to be changed: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-February/033071.html However, I wouldnt worry about that unless you have a problem. --falz ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nvidia-driver rebooting machine on X startup
Maybe someone can build a WITNESS/DDB kernel, since dumping seems to be failing? I compiled these options in last night, but I'm afraid I'm not quite sure what special steps I need to do to utilize those options, if any. I built that kernel, booted into it, started xorg with the nvidia driver, it immediately reboots just as it did before. Something else that's odd that just started happening that's similar to the original poster- their xorg.conf was being truncated to zero bytes. Mine somehow gets changed to what appears to be a different version. The bottom line in it is about 20 Us, and the 'Driver nvidia' lines I added were gone. I have several xorg.conf files named other things, but none have these characteristics. --falz ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nvidia-driver rebooting machine on X startup
I came across this thread on freebsd-questions after some searching on google. I have the exact same issue as others here- if xorg is started with 'nvidia' as the driver, instant reboot. However, my machine is a 100% fresh install with things compiled from source this weekend. However, I did have to install some binary vncserver packages, but they have since been removed. I did the 'xorg' meta port which got me the current xorg-7.3_1. The machine I did the install on was running Debian Unstable for about a year without issue with the same hardware (two cards for 3 monitors): Sep 24 13:41:24 falz kernel: nvidia0: GeForce 7100 GS mem 0xdd00-0xddff,0xb000-0xbfff,0xde00-0xdeff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1 Sep 24 13:41:24 falz kernel: nvidia0: [GIANT-LOCKED] Sep 24 13:41:24 falz kernel: nvidia1: GeForce FX 5200 mem 0xdb00-0xdbff,0xc000-0xcfff irq 18 at device 2.0 on pci3 Sep 24 13:41:24 falz kernel: nvidia1: [GIANT-LOCKED] I went through many of the steps people spoke of earlier in this thread, which were some AGP workarounds that are mentioned in Chapter 9: /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/work/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-100.14.11/doc/README No matter what is done, always an instant reboot if I use the nvidia driver in the xorg.conf. Out of curiosity, is anyone actively using xorg-7.3_1 with nvidia-driver-100.14.11 and having it work? I too am not quite sure what to look for in the output of 'ldconfig -r', but I can see that there is nothing linked against any pre-xorg 7.x stuff there: # ldconfig -R | grep X11 | wc -l 0 Also, the person who had things linked that were stale appears to have been having a different problem that does NOT cause a reboot: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=94938 Thanks, falz ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
