also my nvidia 8600GTS (scanpci for it, pls!)
Chuck Robey
chuckr at chuckr.org
Fri Feb 29 17:15:42 UTC 2008
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Chuck Robey wrote:
> Yuri Pankov wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:37:23PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> Maybe I should drop this at this point, but my nvidia.ko file, which is the
>>> driver for my 8600 GTS card, it never seems to get started. How do I know
>>> this? Because the /dev/nvidiactl file doesn't get made.
>> nvidia_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf ?
>
> Oh, certainly, I thought I said, it's showing up in kldload. The only
> things that are wrong are the non-appearance of the /dev/nvidiactl, xorg
> not starting up, and the only EE lines in Xorg.0.log are these:
>
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! Please ensure
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): that there is a supported NVIDIA GPU in this system, and
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): that the NVIDIA device files have been created properly.
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Please consult the NVIDIA README for details.
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
>
> You know what just occured to me? Maybe the 8600GTS isn't being caught in
> the pci scan. Anyone out there with a Nvidia8600GTS, could you give me
> your entire scanpci run?
>
> Thanks folks
>
Thanks for the help, Yuri. You probably see in my post to Ben Kaduk that I
wasn't really loading from /boot/loader.conf, I was loading right after the
multiuser started (in case the loading hung like it does for my oss loading
does) and that was what was killing me. I was in fact seeing the card OK
in scanpci, it was near the end of the listing, and I must have missed it.
If you read in that post about my booting problem, I sure could use a
suggestion about that, it just won;'t seem to boot from disk2s1a no matter
whatI push (what function key), the only way to do it is to fall into the
loader manually, and force things.
>
>>> I am running devfs. Is this the right one for current? I'm not running
>>> devd, is that right. or maybe should I run both devd AND devfs? Or, anyone
>>> know which one is the right one to run? I need to get nvidiactl to be
>>> created, like it used to do 2 weeks ago.
>> HTH,
>> Yuri
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