[PC-BSD Testing] NVIDIA when RAM is > 2 GB

[Dru Lavigne]

Sorry for the toppost, my mailer isn't quoting this email for some reason.

This is an 8.1 install on a celeron dual core E3200, 4 gb ram, with a GeForce 8800 GS. Every boot option results in a black screen. I walked the guy through adding the machdep line at the boot prompt but that did not make a difference. Anyone else successfully using this card on 8.1? Any suggestions for a possible bios setting? He also tried reducing his ram down to 2 gb but it did not make a difference.

Cheers,

Dru

Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 11:23:31 -0600
From: A-Koziol at neiu.edu
To: testing at lists.pcbsd.org
Subject: Re: [PC-BSD Testing] NVIDIA when RAM is > 2 GB






  


On 12/01/2010 9:21 AM, Dru Lavigne wrote:

  This
came up on IRC today. Apparently there is a bug in the NVIDIA driver
that occurs if the system has more than 2 GB of RAM. The fix is to add
the following line to /boot/loader.conf:

  

machdep.disable_mtrrs=1

  

Kris, is this something that can be added to the 8.2 snapshot so it can
be tested?

  

Cheers,

  

Dru

  
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Is this present in the 260.19.21 version? If so, 263.09 should be out
pretty soon and will hopefully fix this.



Arthur




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