Re: "new" nvidia driver

[Andrew Atrens <atrens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Justin C. Sherrill wrote:

> Lucas Reddinger wrote:
> 
>> 3203 works "out of the box" on FreeBSD in my situation. 4365 hangs on
>> FreeBSD in my situation. A patched 4365 hangs on DragonFly in my
>> situation. But a patched 3203 hangs on DragonFly in my situation also!
> 
> I'm answering a question with a question: are you sure you have all
> vestiges
> of 4365 off your DragonFly computer before applying 3203?  I encountered
> similar problems some time ago switching between NVIDIA and ATI, where I
> still had some chunks of the NVIDIA driver floating around, which messed
> things up badly.
> 

Have you tried the various tuning knobs on the 4365 port? 

The two most likely to have an effect are WITH_FREEBSD_AGP=1 (changes to use
standard gart (needs agp.ko loaded) instead of NVidia's builtin gart) and
WITH_NVIDIA_HACKS=1 (which enables some "nvidia workarounds") ...


> Can you remove all NVIDIA doohickeys, boot and load X using some generic
> driver, perhaps, and check XFree86.log to make sure it doesn't mention
> NVIDIA anywhere.  Then, try 3203 again.  If it still doesn't work at that
> point...  I'm out of good ideas.