Yet Another Nvidia Thread
Getting a blank screen when I start Xorg, Nvidia 5200 AGP graphics card and AMD Athlon CPU.
Generated a default config with
# Xorg -configure
Tested with
# X -config /root/xorg.conf.new
Blank Screen and unhappy chappy.
Getting a blank screen when I start Xorg, Nvidia 5200 AGP graphics card and AMD Athlon CPU.
Generated a default config with
# Xorg -configure
Tested with
# X -config /root/xorg.conf.new
Blank Screen and unhappy chappy.
Code:
FreeBSD archon.hyperion.xnet 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 15:48:17 UTC 2009
root@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
[...]
archon# cd /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver-173/
archon# make showconfig
===> The following configuration options are available for nvidia-driver-173.14.20:
FREEBSD_AGP=off "Use FreeBSD AGP GART driver"
ACPI_PM=off "Enable support for ACPI Power Management"
LINUX=on "Build with support for Linux compatibility"
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
[...]
nvidia0: <GeForce FX 5200> on vgapci0
vgapci0: child nvidia0 requested pci_enable_busmaster
vgapci0: child nvidia0 requested pci_enable_io
nvidia0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
nvidia0: [ITHREAD]
archon# kldstat
Id Refs Address Size Name
1 14 0xc0400000 b6dfe0 kernel
2 1 0xc0f6e000 14540 geom_journal.ko
3 2 0xc4eb5000 26000 linux.ko
4 1 0xc50c0000 6e2000 nvidia.ko
archon# tail -n 1 /boot/device.hints
hint.agp.0.disabled="1"