[Newbie]Dell Inspiron 8200, Geforce 2 Go, FreeBSD, and Mindless Evil.

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Okay, I'll do that once I get to work today and can plug my laptop in.

Fish


-----Original Message-----
From: newbie-admin@XFree86.Org [mailto:newbie-admin@XFree86.Org]On Behalf Of
Lionel Lecoq
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 3:07 AM
To: newbie@XFree86.Org
Subject: RE: [Newbie]Dell Inspiron 8200, Geforce 2 Go, FreeBSD, and Mindless
Evil.

Sorry for not having followed up but I don't know nvidia cards and drivers.
I won't be able to help you with point 1 either because I am not sure where
FreeBSD does it's call
to the desktop (in RH 7.x it's in .Clients -or more exactly in the file
pointed to by .Clients I
don't have the exact name because I am not on my mobo...- It can also be in
.xinitrc -I hope my
memory is OK as to the spelling. Alzeimer you know...
As to point 2. X is very likely using 640x480 which is usually bad news
because in most cases it
means that the card has not been recognised and that the vga (dumb) driver
is being used...
I do think posting both your XF86Config and the log would help...
Lionel


--- Jamey Price <fish@fish-mail.com> wrote:
> Okay, so I went ahead and fixed the problem myself.  Long story short, X
> seems to work with FreeBSD 5.0 DP1 and Xfree86 4.2.0 -current (after I
fixed
> the typos in the source that caused it not to compile).  Now I have a new
> issue, two, actually.  1. When I run Xfree86, I get the nice little
> hatched-background and my pointer moves gleefully.  No more.  No desktop,
no
> nothing.  I'm guessing I need to install KDE or something, though I
thought
> I had.  Can anyone confirm/deny my suspicion there?  Second, the nice
little
> hatched area is about one quarter the size of my screen, and centered.  I
> took a config file generated with the -configure switch and added the
> following lines, but still the display was the same size.
>
>     Subsection "Display"
>         Depth       24
>         Modes       "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768"
>     EndSubsection
> Subsection "Display"
>         Depth       16
>         Modes       "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768"
>     EndSubsection
>     Subsection "Display"
>         Depth       8
>         Modes       "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768"
>     EndSubsection
>
> Without the Depth 8 section in there, something complained about there
being
> no 8bpp configuration.  I'd love to pull up the error for you, but the
> battery in my laptop just died.  What am I doing wrong this time?  I'm
going
> to guess these problems are simpler to solve than my last one, so I'm
hoping
> for a good turnout of advice
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Fish
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: newbie-admin@XFree86.Org [mailto:newbie-admin@XFree86.Org]On Behalf
Of
> Jamey Price
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 8:30 AM
> To: newbie@XFree86.Org
> Subject: RE: [Newbie]Dell Inspiron 8200, Geforce 2 Go, FreeBSD, and
Mindless
> Evil.
>
> I've got the nvidia driver.
>
> Fish
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: newbie-admin@XFree86.Org [mailto:newbie-admin@XFree86.Org]On Behalf
Of
> Lionel Lecoq
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 2:33 AM
> To: newbie@XFree86.Org
> Subject: RE: [Newbie]Dell Inspiron 8200, Geforce 2 Go, FreeBSD, and
Mindless
> Evil.
>
> I did not follow the thread, so sorry if what I ask has already been
> answered...
> are you running nv or the nvidia closed source driver. I believe (from
what
> I saw on this list, I
> don't have a nvidia) that getting the nvidia driver (download from their
> site) might be the only
> way...
> Lionel
> --- Jamey Price <fish@fish-mail.com> wrote:
> > Still no dice.  Same error.  Someone has to have some idea about what
I'm
> > doing wrong....  I mean, there are loads of people out there with
FreeBSD
> > 4.5-stable and X 4.2.0 running on GeForce 2 Go video cards.  :(
> >
> > I think I'm going to start doing drastic things like trying out -current
> or
> > something.
> >
> > Fish
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: newbie-admin@XFree86.Org [mailto:newbie-admin@XFree86.Org]On
Behalf
> Of
> > Lionel Lecoq
> > Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 5:02 PM
> > To: newbie@XFree86.Org
> > Subject: Re: [Newbie]Dell Inspiron 8200, Geforce 2 Go, FreeBSD, and
> Mindless
> > Evil.
> >
> > Not only do I agree with the proposal but I would probably uncomment
> > everything but xtrap...
> > Lionel
> > --- Ted Spradley <tsprad@spradley.org> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 10:08:22 -0400
> > > "Jamey Price" <fish@fish-mail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > [...]
> > > > errors, though.  After the white text I get "(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed
to
> > > > load glX" "(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the Nvdriver kernel
> > > > module!" "(EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***" "Fatal server error:
> > > > AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0"
> > > [...]
> > > > Section "Module"
> > > > #   Load  "extmod"
> > > >     #Load  "dri"
> > > >     #Load  "dbe"
> > > >     #Load  "record"
> > > >     #Load  "xtrap"
> > > >     #Load  "speedo"
> > > >     #Load  "type1"
> > > > EndSection
> > >
> > > Try adding
> > >
> > >         Load  "glx"
> > >
> > > to the "Module" section.  Might want to un-comment some of these
others,
> > > too.
> > >
> > > Disclaimer:  I'm just guessing.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Remember, more computing power was thrown away last week than existed
in
> > > the world in 1982.  -- http://www.tom.womack.net/computing/prices.html
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