Nvidia GeForce Go 7600

[mezamoe]

hello there.. I'm new to the Unix world, but I've been a Linux user for some time..

before posting I have been reading all posts possible over this problem I have with my Nvidia GeForce Go 7600.
i've tried all possible drivers but can't succeed.

i have pcbsd 1.2 with compat5x and linux base compatibility installed. I also tried the latest nvidia available from 7th november.. did it manually.. no pci available..
did the make install and then ran di nvidia-xconfig to update the XF86Config file in use.
when i restart i get:

IO Error in XOpendisplay
NVRM: RM_INIT_ADAPTER() failed
Unable to fire up local display :0; disabling

I edited the XF86Config file manually.. in fact the driver was still vesa and the horizontal and vertical sync rates were not the ones of my screen (namely horizontal 31 - 83 and vertical 56 - 75), I have a HP Pavilion DV8323ea laptop.

when i edit the config file again and put back vesa.. if i reboot i get again 1024-768 resolution,, while if i just give a startx i get the xfce similar gui..
any hint?
before doing this I tried all pbi packets available on pcbsd web..
Thanks for any help!!
Meza

[TerryP]

I had the same problem of it resetting my XF86Config file every reboot. Only it would not read my over riding xorg.conf file.

What I found out is the system tried to autodetect my video card at boot up (ATI Xpress200M) it couldn't so it over wrote the XF86Config file with a fail safe VESA one from /PC-BSD/cardDetect IIRC.

What I did to skip removing my XF86Config and restarting X to force it to read my xorg.conf was to

rename the XF86Orig in the /PCBSD/cardDetect directory (think its cardDetect) to .BAK and placed my working XF86Config file there with the expected file name. So on reboot when it failed to detect my Radeon it'd use my XF86Config file instead of the fail safe.


Bug or Junk I dunno which.

[mezamoe]

...it didn't work.. appreciate your help..

I did what u suggested but didn't work.. I had again the

NVRM: RM_INIT_ADAPTER() failed

and the rest...

so I logged on as root and edited the XF86Config file at the driver section.. I just entered vesa instead of nvidia.. nothing else.. and rebooted leaving all the other parameters as they were.. horizontal/vertical sync rates and all.. and I got KDE again..

the very strange thing is that when it does not work i also get mta errors ..and it can't assign an address to smpt.. ???? :?:
I'm having a doubt.. how can I check for an IRQ conflict?

[mezamoe]

I didn't know you could do that.. so I started a new post already myself..
apologies for the confusion...

the other thread I started better explains what happened.. maybe you can delete this one..

thanks and apologies again for the confusion!

Mezam