Re: FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT

2009-01-10 Thread Giuseppe Pagnoni
, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:11 PM >> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT >> To: Pieter de Goeje >> >> >> Dear Pieter, >> >> thanks for the information. Unfortunately, putting the line >> hw.physmem="3G" in /boot/loader.conf as y

Re: FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT

2009-01-09 Thread Giuseppe Pagnoni
iuseppe Pagnoni >> Date: Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:11 PM >> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT >> To: Pieter de Goeje >> >> >> Dear Pieter, >> >> thanks for the information. Unfortunately, putting the line >> hw.physmem="3G&

Re: FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT

2009-01-08 Thread Giuseppe Pagnoni
-- Forwarded message -- From: Giuseppe Pagnoni Date: Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:11 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT To: Pieter de Goeje Dear Pieter, thanks for the information. Unfortunately, putting the line hw.physmem="3G" in /boot/loader.c

Re: FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT

2009-01-08 Thread Pieter de Goeje
> How much memory do you have? Freebsd/Nvidia doesn't work with 4Gigs > of memory OR PAE enabled kernels. Nvidia's forums have lots more > information > regarding this. > >> > >> I'm not sure of the internals exactly, but the amount of onboard memory > >> plus the memory that

Re: FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT

2009-01-06 Thread Giuseppe Pagnoni
Dear Paul, thank you very much for your help, that surely clarifies things. best giuseppe On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:51 AM, Paul Procacci wrote: > Paul Procacci wrote: >> >> Giuseppe Pagnoni wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> well that is interesting. I do have 4 Gigs of RAM but I thought that >>

Re: FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT

2009-01-06 Thread Paul Procacci
Paul Procacci wrote: Giuseppe Pagnoni wrote: Hello, well that is interesting. I do have 4 Gigs of RAM but I thought that the nvidia driver would not work only if the 64 bit version of FreeBSD was installed. I installed the i386 version, so I assumed that I was just wasting some memory. In ca

Re: FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT

2009-01-06 Thread Paul Procacci
Giuseppe Pagnoni wrote: Hello, well that is interesting. I do have 4 Gigs of RAM but I thought that the nvidia driver would not work only if the 64 bit version of FreeBSD was installed. I installed the i386 version, so I assumed that I was just wasting some memory. In case I would want to use

Re: FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT

2009-01-06 Thread Giuseppe Pagnoni
Hello, well that is interesting. I do have 4 Gigs of RAM but I thought that the nvidia driver would not work only if the 64 bit version of FreeBSD was installed. I installed the i386 version, so I assumed that I was just wasting some memory. In case I would want to use the nvidia driver, would

Re: FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT

2009-01-06 Thread Paul Procacci
Giuseppe Pagnoni wrote: Dear all, I have just installed FreeBSD 7.1 Release on a machine with a GeForce 8500 GT (I think this is the card, but more about that later...) and an LCD screen with a native resolution of 1680 x 1050. Xorg works fine with the standard "nv" driver. However, if I try t

FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT

2009-01-06 Thread Giuseppe Pagnoni
Dear all, I have just installed FreeBSD 7.1 Release on a machine with a GeForce 8500 GT (I think this is the card, but more about that later...) and an LCD screen with a native resolution of 1680 x 1050. Xorg works fine with the standard "nv" driver. However, if I try to install the x11/nvidia-d