Help troubleshoot the nvidia driver and x display problem

rain cip raincip at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 16 21:59:38 PST 2004


Hello,
 
I need some help to troubleshoot why the X doesn't come up after
installing the latest nvidia driver from the port tree.  I have no X 
display problem prior to replacing the generic vga driver with the 
new nvidia driver.
 
I installed the driver via the ports tree, added a line to turn off 
agp.ko in device.hint, edited xorg.conf per the readme file from the 
driver download, then rebooted the box.  When it tried to start the 
X server, the screen flashed a few times then gave me the following 
errors:
 
kdm: Abnormal termination of greeter for display:0, code 1, singal 0
(the line above repeats five times)
init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv8, sleepinnng 30 secs
 
My system has FreeBSD 5.3 installed with default xorg-server-6.7.0_9.  
I also have Linux ABI compability turned on.  My graphics card is 
GeForce TI4000.  The /etc/ttys has the following line:
 
ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure
 
I looked in the Xorg.0.log file but did not spot any error.
 
Any help to chase down this display problem will be greatly 
appreciated.
 
rain
 


		
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