[wplug-bsd] FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT + nVidia driver problem

[Poyner, Brandon]

That usually comes down to what hardware XFree86 supports out of the
box.  At home I have a GeForce 4 and a Samsung 950p monitor.  Even the
XFree86 in Fedora Beta 3 did not know the settings for my monitor.  I
had a nice headache inducing refresh flicker on first boot, and only
after hand tweaking my XF86Config did I get that straightened out.
Strange being that I never had that problem with FreeBSD 4.8, FreeBSD
5.0, Redhat 9, Gentoo, SuSE, etc.

The recommended method in FreeBSD is to skip over the XFree86
configuration when installing the OS.  Sometimes the configuration will
go horribly wrong and lock up the machine or otherwise prevent you from
completing the install.  What is recommended is to log in as root after
the first boot and run /stand/sysinstall.  From there you can
reconfigure the machine as you like, install additional packages, etc.

Brandon Poyner
Network Engineer II
CCAC - College Office
412-237-3086


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Coutch [mailto:robert.coutch at verizon.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 9:34 PM
To: wplug-bsd at wplug.org
Subject: Re: [wplug-bsd] FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT + nVidia driver problem


I don't know about anyone else but I always seem to have problems
getting X to 
work.

I wind up having to hand edit XF86Config.

-Bob



On Tuesday 11 November 2003 12:34 pm, Poyner, Brandon wrote:
> It appears you are correct, there isn't a -STABLE for FBSD 5 yet.  It
> appears as if that branch will be created after 5.2-RELEASE is forked
> off.  In my experience it's best to steer clear of STABLE and CURRENT
> anyway, unless you're willing to deal with unpredictability.  i.e., if
> you find a bug that is fixed in CVS, you might have to perform a
cvsup,
> buildworld and buildkernel because any changes in world might have
> matching changes in the kernel.  And there's no guarantee a -STABLE
> kernel will even boot (been there, seen that).  That may be perfectly
ok
> if you're doing this as a hobby.
>
>
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/5-roadmap/index.html
>
> If your sound card works with -STABLE but not 5.1-RELEASE you can
> probably find somebody who has back ported the change to RELEASE.
>
> Brandon Poyner
> Network Engineer II
> CCAC - College Office
> 412-237-3086
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin Slavin [mailto:bslavin_list at wavecrazy.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 12:08 PM
> To: wplug-bsd at wplug.org
> Subject: Re: [wplug-bsd] FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT + nVidia driver problem
>
>
> Thanks for the input guys.
>
> I do have a question, though: I was under the impression that there
was
> not a 5.1-STABLE branch (probably incorrectly assumed). I thought this
> because, on the ports page, it lists the options for 4.8-RELEASE,
> 4.9-RELEASE, 4.9-STABLE, 5.0-RELEASE, 5.1-RELEASE, and 5.1-CURRENT.
>
> If there is a -STABLE branch for 5.1, I'll happily use it (and hope my
> sound card works).
>
> In regards to the nVidia driver being broken in -CURRENT, I looked
> around the archives and found only a few mentions of the issue, and
saw
> that some people had been able to get it working while others had
not...
>
> I was hoping to be lucky... I guess not.
>
>   --Ben
>
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