PCMCIA CDROM drives

2003-12-02 Thread Justin Smith
Does the generic kernel have drivers for these. I got such a cdrom drive for my Portege 3500 tablet PC and it appeared to be able to boot the 5.2 beta mini-install CD. I wasn't ready to proceed with a complete install, so I shut it off at this point. ___

Re: Upgrade experience 5.1p10->5.2 Beta (update)

2003-11-29 Thread Justin Smith
This also fixed the scratchiness of the sound (sound had a kind of buzz to it, as though it was being played on a kazoo..) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EM

Re: Upgrade experience 5.1p10->5.2 Beta

2003-11-29 Thread Justin Smith
Are you running with GENERIC from 5.2-BETA? If so, you may wish to recompile your kernel with WITNESS and INVARIANTS turned off and see if that helps. These debugging features are critical during the development process, but also seriously impact performance and might make the difference you're

Upgrade experience 5.1p10->5.2 Beta (cont)

2003-11-29 Thread Justin Smith
I should add something to what I said before about the nvidia driver problems: Running SIMPLE OpenGL programs (like mesa-demos) works. I've notices that Celestia and OpenUniverse download huge textures to the graphics card. Perhaps it is just the VOLUME of data going through the AGP port that

Re: Nvidia problem fixed in current?

2003-11-29 Thread Justin Smith
Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: On Wednesday 26 November 2003 18:40, Justin Smith wrote: 1. Was the problem with the nvidia driver ever fixed? (I reported this more than a month ago --- the kernel nvidia driver only works with parameters set to lower the speed of the interface, and even then failed

Upgrade experience 5.1p10->5.2 Beta

2003-11-29 Thread Justin Smith
First I tried making world and kernel from the cvsup'ed standard supfile. This went OK. Then I did installkernel and installworld (in that order) and the second step crashed with messages that shared libraries were missing. (It's as if it installed some files before installing the shared librar

Nvidia problem fixed in current?

2003-11-26 Thread Justin Smith
1. Was the problem with the nvidia driver ever fixed? (I reported this more than a month ago --- the kernel nvidia driver only works with parameters set to lower the speed of the interface, and even then failed with some OpenGL programs like OpenUniverse). 2. Can one upgrade to 5.2 beta by cvsu

Re: Nvidia driver

2003-10-09 Thread Justin Smith
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 21:46, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Thursday 09 October 2003 01:41, Justin Smith wrote: > > > Ahh! > > > Here is a fragment of my loader.conf.. > > > nvidia_load="YES" > > > machdep.disable_mtrrs="1" > > &

Re: Nvidia driver

2003-10-09 Thread Justin Smith
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 19:53, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Justin Smith wrote: > If you hook up a serial console, are there any messages that get printed > out? Unfortunately, I have no way of doing this on the machine that has the nvidia card. I think the "r

Nvidia driver

2003-10-08 Thread Justin Smith
> Ahh! > Here is a fragment of my loader.conf.. > nvidia_load="YES" > machdep.disable_mtrrs="1" > hw.nvidia.registry.ReqAGPRate="1" > > > Although this fix alloes me to start up the nvidia driver, the machine still reboots when I run certain apps (openuniverse, for instance) and at random times

Re: Nvidia driver

2003-10-02 Thread Justin Smith
The regular nvidia driver that comes with X windows works fine. Just rename the driver in XF86Config from 'nvidia' to 'nv' and everything (except opengl) works. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current

Nvidia driver

2003-10-01 Thread Justin Smith
MY system: FreeBSD jsmith.org 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #0: Wed Oct 1 13:55:06 EDT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Whenever I try to use the nividia driver for X windows, my system reboots. Any suggestions? ___ [EMA

Gcc 3.2.2 vs gcc 3.2.3

2003-09-22 Thread Justin Smith
My system: FreeBSD jsmith.org 5.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p3 #0: Sat Sep 20 14:37:32 EDT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL i386 I'm running a P4 2.4 Ghz processor with 512meg of ram. I've had the problem of getting signal 11 and signal 4 when I make buildworld an