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dybnu
November 21st, 2008, 06:56
When i use the vesa driver ,firefox3 displays correctly.

(--) NV(0): Chipset: "GeForce Go 6150"

Levenson
November 21st, 2008, 19:14
nv? You should download the official driver from nvidia.com.
Now i'm using firefox3 with nvidia beta driver 180.

graudeejs
November 21st, 2008, 19:21
install x11/nvidia-driver from ports tree
load it with kldload nvidia
or add nvidia_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf

run X -configure
if works (will work) copy output file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf

artificer
November 21st, 2008, 19:52
You can try with

Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"

in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file under the nv Driver section.
I use the 'nv' driver and this solved the problem.

milosz
November 21st, 2008, 22:42
Hello, I had problems with firefox (amd64) with nv driver but it works fine after adding to "Device" section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"

dybnu
November 23rd, 2008, 09:22
thanks Levenson & killasmurf86 ,I am using amd64,which have no official driver

and thanks artificer ,I followed your suggestion,it works fine now

thanks milosz,your method maybe can works on higher nvidia chipset but not suitable for me :)

graudeejs
November 23rd, 2008, 12:03
correction:
nvidia driver works on amd64, if you run it in 32bin mode ;)

besides, i don't see you mentioned you got 64bit os earlier

adamk
November 23rd, 2008, 14:16
correction:
nvidia driver works on amd64, if you run it in 32bin mode ;)

besides, i don't see you mentioned you got 64bit os earlier

He may not have mentioned it, but you just assumed he wasn't using it :-)

I find it odd that you won't use opera as a torrent client because it's closed source (http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=2476#post18713) but you will recommend someone use a closed source driver :-)

Adam

graudeejs
November 23rd, 2008, 20:06
well, driver works way better than open source one
but i had really bad experience with opera torrent

Antti
November 24th, 2008, 18:33
correction:
nvidia driver works on amd64, if you run it in 32bin mode ;)


How can I run it in 32bit mode?

graudeejs
November 24th, 2008, 22:05
just install FreeBSD i386
However if you got more than 4G memory, there will be problem

hydra
November 28th, 2008, 16:59
Thanks guys, I had the same problem, now it's fixed !