Freebsd 6.1 + Nvidia Driver + Via Apollo 133

[cesardi]

Hello
I,m using FreeBsd as Desktop for 2 years, recently I upgraded video card to a Gforce MX440 64MB 8x, since my motherboard chipset supports only up to 4x I get this BEFORE running X :

hw.nvidia.agp.host-bridge.rates: 4x 2x 1x
hw.nvidia.agp.host-bridge.fw: supported
hw.nvidia.agp.host-bridge.sba: supported
hw.nvidia.agp.host-bridge.registers: 0x1f000217:0x00000004
hw.nvidia.agp.card.rates: 4x 2x 1x
hw.nvidia.agp.card.fw: supported
hw.nvidia.agp.card.sba: supported
hw.nvidia.agp.card.registers: 0x1f000217:0x00000000
hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled
hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: n/a (unused)
hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: n/a (disabled)
hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: n/a (disabled)
hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: n/a (disabled)
hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA FreeBSD x86 Kernel Module 1.0-8762 Mon May 15 14:07:12 PDT 2006
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableALiAGP: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.NvAGP: 1
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1
hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295
hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295
hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.DevicesConnected: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.VideoEnhancement: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.RmLogonRC: 1
hw.nvidia.registry.DetectPrimaryVga: 1
hw.nvidia.cards.0.model: GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X
hw.nvidia.cards.0.irq: 10
hw.nvidia.cards.0.vbios: ??.??.??.??.??
hw.nvidia.cards.0.type: AGP
dev.nvidia.0.%desc: GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X
dev.nvidia.0.%driver: nvidia
dev.nvidia.0.%location: slot=0 function=0
dev.nvidia.0.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x10de device=0x0181 subvendor=0x0000 subdevice=0x0000 class=0x030000
dev.nvidia.0.%parent: pci1

THEN WITH X RUNNING :

hw.nvidia.agp.host-bridge.rates: 2x 1x
hw.nvidia.agp.host-bridge.fw: supported
hw.nvidia.agp.host-bridge.sba: supported
hw.nvidia.agp.host-bridge.registers: 0x1f000213:0x00000102
hw.nvidia.agp.card.rates: 2x 1x
hw.nvidia.agp.card.fw: supported
hw.nvidia.agp.card.sba: supported
hw.nvidia.agp.card.registers: 0x1f000213:0x1f000102
hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: enabled
hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: nvidia
hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: 2x
hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: disabled
hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: disabled
hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA FreeBSD x86 Kernel Module 1.0-8762 Mon May 15 14:07:12 PDT 2006
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableALiAGP: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.NvAGP: 1
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1
hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295
hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295
hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.DevicesConnected: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.VideoEnhancement: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.RmLogonRC: 1
hw.nvidia.registry.DetectPrimaryVga: 1
hw.nvidia.cards.0.model: GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X
hw.nvidia.cards.0.irq: 10
hw.nvidia.cards.0.vbios: 04.18.20.13.00
hw.nvidia.cards.0.type: AGP
dev.nvidia.0.%desc: GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X
dev.nvidia.0.%driver: nvidia
dev.nvidia.0.%location: slot=0 function=0
dev.nvidia.0.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x10de device=0x0181 subvendor=0x0000 subdevice=0x0000 class=0x030000
dev.nvidia.0.%parent: pci1

How it now reports only 2x?
I also do this:
sysctl hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x=1
sysctl hw.nvidia.registry.ReqAGPRate=8
sysctl hw.nvidia.registry.NvAGP=1
sysctl hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA=1
sysctl hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW=1
sysctl hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode=0
sysctl hw.nvidia.registry.VideoEnhancement=1


But nothing change, OpneGl Screensavers flicker and performance y very poor

Any Clue?

Thanks In Advance.

Cesar DiMartino

[cesardi]

SOLVED
I apply the pacth from this thread http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72892 then enble agp module in freebsd, now all runs fine, some opengl screensavers still jerky...

Now I have:
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hw.nvidia.agp.card.rates: 4x 2x 1x
hw.nvidia.agp.card.fw: supported
hw.nvidia.agp.card.sba: supported
hw.nvidia.agp.card.registers: 0x1f000217:0x1f000314
hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: enabled
hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: freebsd (agp.ko)
hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: 4x
hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: enabled
hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: enabled
hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA FreeBSD x86 Kernel Module 1.0-8762 Mon May 15 14:07:12 PDT 2006
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x: 1
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableALiAGP: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.NvAGP: 1
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 1
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 1
hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1
hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295
hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295
hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.DevicesConnected: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.VideoEnhancement: 1
hw.nvidia.registry.RmLogonRC: 1
hw.nvidia.registry.DetectPrimaryVga: 1
hw.nvidia.cards.0.model: GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X
hw.nvidia.cards.0.irq: 10
hw.nvidia.cards.0.vbios: 04.18.20.13.00
hw.nvidia.cards.0.type: AGP
dev.nvidia.0.%desc: GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X
dev.nvidia.0.%driver: nvidia
dev.nvidia.0.%location: slot=0 function=0
dev.nvidia.0.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x10de device=0x0181 subvendor=0x0000 subdevice=0x0000 class=0x030000
dev.nvidia.0.%parent: pci1

Thanks!
Hope this help others...