Nvidia Driver

[nawcom]

well hey stuff like this happenes - i had to handle an issues like this. 
let us know whats stopping it, will be willing to help.
good luck,
Ben


Adam Stroud wrote:

>Well,
>
>That poses a problem.  During the upgrade (via portupgrade) my machine
>rebooted on it's own and now won't boot.  I think I am getting a
>kernel error that I was just about to post in another email to the
>questions list.  I will copy you on that post.
>
>A
>
>On 7/15/05, nawcom <nawcom at nawcom.no-ip.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>if you can, go ahead and print out your xorg.conf settings and the log
>>file for it. I am suspicous that theres something up with that.
>>
>>Ben
>>
>>Ian Moore wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>On Friday 15 July 2005 12:37, Adam Stroud wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>All:
>>>>
>>>>I am having a problem getting my nvidia video card to work since I
>>>>portupgraded to the latest nvidia driver in the port.  I had
>>>>everything working find using many of the old verions.  Then I
>>>>upgraded to the latest version and now when I attempt tp startx, I
>>>>get:
>>>>
>>>>X Window System Version 6.8.2
>>>>
>>>>Release Date: 9 February 2005
>>>>
>>>>X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2
>>>>
>>>>Build Operating System: FreeBSD 5.4 i386 [ELF]
>>>>
>>>>Current Operating System: FreeBSD osirus.stronet.dyndns.org 5.4-STABLE
>>>>FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Fri Jun 24 23:25:37 EDT 2005
>>>>adam at osirus.stronet.dyndns.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/APS_KERN i386
>>>>
>>>>Build Date: 24 June 2005
>>>>
>>>>     Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
>>>>
>>>>     to make sure that you have the latest version.
>>>>
>>>>Module Loader present
>>>>
>>>>Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
>>>>
>>>>     (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
>>>>
>>>>     (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
>>>>
>>>>(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Jul 14 22:50:09 2005
>>>>
>>>>(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
>>>>
>>>>(EE) Failed to load module "speedo" (module does not exist, 0)
>>>>
>>>>(EE) No devices detected.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Fatal server error:
>>>>
>>>>no screens found
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
>>>>
>>>>      at http://wiki.X.Org
>>>>
>>>>for help.
>>>>
>>>>Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional
>>>>information.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>adam at osirus:/boot>exit
>>>>
>>>>exit
>>>>
>>>>I looked and /var/log/messages, and FreeBSD sees the video card and  I
>>>>verified that the module is loaded with kldinfo.  As I said,
>>>>everything worked fine with the older version of the port.  Does
>>>>anyone have any ideas?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks
>>>>A
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>What card do you have - nvidia have dropped support for older chipsets - take
>>>a look at /usr/ports/UPDATING for details.
>>>That might be the cause of your problem.
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
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