Re: Nvidia driver

On Thursday 02 October 2003 13:53, Mike Hunter wrote:
> > Whenever I try to use the nividia driver for X windows, my system
> > reboots. Any suggestions?
>
> ME TOO!

My wife's computer did this. In the end I turned down all the knobs I 
could find (mostly AGP speed stuff).

It still dies when trying OpenGL though.
hw.nvidia.agp.card.rates: 2x 1x
hw.nvidia.agp.card.fw: not supported
hw.nvidia.agp.card.sba: supported
hw.nvidia.agp.card.registers: 0x1f000203:0x00000000
hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled
hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: n/a
hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: n/a
hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: n/a
hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: n/a
hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA FreeBSD x86 nvidia.ko Kernel Module  1.0-3203  Wed Oct 30 06:06:58 PST 2002
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1
hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295
hw.nvidia.cards.0.model: RIVA TNT2
hw.nvidia.cards.0.irq: 11
hw.nvidia.cards.0.vbios: 02.05.01.00.00
hw.nvidia.cards.0.type: AGP

...
Section "Device"
        Option "NvAgp" "0"
        Identifier  "Card1"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        VendorName  "NVidia"
        BoardName   "Riva TNT2"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
...

agp0: <VIA 82C8363 (Apollo KT133A) host to PCI bridge> mem 0xd0000000-0xd3ffffff at device 0.0 on pci0
...
nvidia0: <RIVA TNT2> mem 0xd4000000-0xd5ffffff,0xd6000000-0xd6ffffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1
..

This is a 4.8 system though.

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