Hello everyone!
I have an old laptop with the Nvidia GeForce 8200M G. The last version of the Nvidia driver that supports my GPU is nvidia-driver-340-340.108_3. Since this old driver is not ABI-compatible with xorg-server >= 21, I installed FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE, that is the last release that shipped with xorg-server compatible with Nvidia driver 340 (xorg-server 1.20). Then, I have build from ports branch 2022Q3 (last quarterly branch with suited xorg-server) a lot of packages (xorg, xfce4, firefox, etc.) because such old binary packages ar no more available on official repositories.
So far, so good.
It works well, but after some time from starting the Xorg server (some times immediately, some times after minutes up to hours), the system freezes completely with a corrupted flickering display. At this point I can only force a shutdown by long pressing the power button: the system doesn't respond to anything else (CTRL+ALT+Fn, ssh connections, ping, etc.). Totally gone. There aren't any traces in logs (neither /var/log/* nor /var/crash/*).
Evrything works well if I disable the Option "Accel" on xorg.conf file but, the system becames quite slow and - obviously - the applications that need GLX extension don't start at all.
Any idea?
Thank you so much!
I have an old laptop with the Nvidia GeForce 8200M G. The last version of the Nvidia driver that supports my GPU is nvidia-driver-340-340.108_3. Since this old driver is not ABI-compatible with xorg-server >= 21, I installed FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE, that is the last release that shipped with xorg-server compatible with Nvidia driver 340 (xorg-server 1.20). Then, I have build from ports branch 2022Q3 (last quarterly branch with suited xorg-server) a lot of packages (xorg, xfce4, firefox, etc.) because such old binary packages ar no more available on official repositories.
So far, so good.
It works well, but after some time from starting the Xorg server (some times immediately, some times after minutes up to hours), the system freezes completely with a corrupted flickering display. At this point I can only force a shutdown by long pressing the power button: the system doesn't respond to anything else (CTRL+ALT+Fn, ssh connections, ping, etc.). Totally gone. There aren't any traces in logs (neither /var/log/* nor /var/crash/*).
Evrything works well if I disable the Option "Accel" on xorg.conf file but, the system becames quite slow and - obviously - the applications that need GLX extension don't start at all.
Any idea?
Thank you so much!