Re: System lockups in X with nVidia GeForce 7600 GS (G73) and Gtk+

2011-08-25 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:15:03 -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 05:49:42 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Meanwhile, I got the nvidia driver compiled, installed and running. Tests like % xlock -nolock -mode lament or % xlock -nolock -mode

Re: System lockups in X with nVidia GeForce 7600 GS (G73) and Gtk+

2011-08-16 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 05:49:42 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Meanwhile, I got the nvidia driver compiled, installed and running. Tests like % xlock -nolock -mode lament or % xlock -nolock -mode fire show the FPS rate I've expected (no comparison to the 3 fps I

Re: System lockups in X with nVidia GeForce 7600 GS (G73) and Gtk+

2011-08-14 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011, Polytropon wrote: And just in case I have to replace it (PCIe required), what brand of GPU should I buy instead? Again nVidia, or better ATI, or Intel? It's a hard decision because I don't want to get from one trouble into the next one... Radeon HD4650 has worked well for

System lockups in X with nVidia GeForce 7600 GS (G73) and Gtk+

2011-08-13 Thread Polytropon
I'm using FreeBSD/amd64 on an Intel Core 2 4300 (1.8GHz) on a VIA-equipped mainboard. The whole machine is a quite cheap one from a discounter (mainly food). OS is 8.2-STABLE (July 2011). I have xorg-7.5.1 installed with xorg-server-1.7.7_1,1, using xf86-video-nv-2.1.18 configured in xorg.conf.

Re: System lockups in X with nVidia GeForce 7600 GS (G73) and Gtk+

2011-08-13 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 03:22:06AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: I'm using FreeBSD/amd64 on an Intel Core 2 4300 (1.8GHz) on a VIA-equipped mainboard. The whole machine is a quite cheap one from a discounter (mainly food). OS is 8.2-STABLE (July 2011). I have xorg-7.5.1 installed with

Re: System lockups in X with nVidia GeForce 7600 GS (G73) and Gtk+

2011-08-13 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Has anyone got the nouveau driver working, and if, how precisely has he done so? I used to have it working, but I think for various reasons it's being abandoned by FreeBSD x11 team. Not sure of exact current state but it's

Re: System lockups in X with nVidia GeForce 7600 GS (G73) and Gtk+

2011-08-13 Thread Antonio Olivares
It complains about xorg-server must be = 1.8, but only 1.7.7 is in latest ports (right now). This is step 4 on the list. Note that it's ./autogen.sh, not ./autogen as in the article. The steps explained are: 1. Uninstall any nvidia driver # pkg_delete nvidia-driver-\* # vi

Re: System lockups in X with nVidia GeForce 7600 GS (G73) and Gtk+

2011-08-13 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 03:55:20 +0100, Frank Shute wrote: On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 03:22:06AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: Has anyone got the nouveau driver working, and if, how precisely has he done so? Yes. I got it working once by following the package instructions but on a subsequent system

Re: System lockups in X with nVidia GeForce 7600 GS (G73) and Gtk+

2011-08-13 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011, Polytropon wrote: PS. Looking at your xorg.conf, maybe the reason why I can't do Ctrl+Alt+Backspace anymore is that DontZap belongs to ServerLayout, not to ServerFlags - I'll quickly check that. xorg.conf(5) says about ServerFlags: Options specified in this

Re: System lockups in X with nVidia GeForce 7600 GS (G73) and Gtk+

2011-08-13 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 21:38:59 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2011, Polytropon wrote: PS. Looking at your xorg.conf, maybe the reason why I can't do Ctrl+Alt+Backspace anymore is that DontZap belongs to ServerLayout, not to ServerFlags - I'll quickly check that.

Re: System lockups in X with nVidia GeForce 7600 GS (G73) and Gtk+

2011-08-13 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 22:12:26 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: I have nouveau working but for another card: vgapci0@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x03 card=0x82781043 chip=0x06e410de rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' device = 'NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS (G98)' class

Re: System lockups in X with nVidia GeForce 7600 GS (G73) and Gtk+

2011-08-13 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 22:12:26 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: I have nouveau working but for another card: vgapci0@pci0:1:0:0:   class=0x03 card=0x82781043 chip=0x06e410de rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00     vendor     = 'NVIDIA

Re: System lockups in X with nVidia GeForce 7600 GS (G73) and Gtk+

2011-08-13 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:15:52 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: I just # cd /ports/x11-drivers/xf86-drivers-nouveau/ # make install clean # Xorg -configure tested the screen, then ran # cp /root/xorg.conf.net /etc/X11/xorg.conf # sed -i 's|nv|nouveau|g' /etc/X11/xorg.conf restarted

Re: System lockups in X with nVidia GeForce 7600 GS (G73) and Gtk+

2011-08-13 Thread Gurpreet Singh
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Has anyone got the nouveau driver working, and if, how precisely has he done so? I am using nouveau driver on FreeBSD 8.2 Release with resolution 1280x1024. I have Nvidia GeForce 7025 card embedded in my Asus Mobo. CPU: AMD

Re: System lockups in X with nVidia GeForce 7600 GS (G73) and Gtk+

2011-08-13 Thread Gurpreet Singh
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Gurpreet Singh gurpreet...@gmail.comwrote: ---Start-- Installing it should be as simple as below procedure provided you have base sources in /usr/src. # cd /usr/src/sys # fetch

Re: System lockups in X with nVidia GeForce 7600 GS (G73) and Gtk+

2011-08-13 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: What I don't understand is how a port that's more than one year old can require a X server version that's not reached yet _today_... :-) Not exactly related to your point here, but you should also be aware of the