Nvidia on CURRENT...

[Anders Troback]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:41:48 +0200
Anders Troback <freebsd at troback.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:56:03 +0200
> Tore Lund <toreld at netscape.net> wrote:
> 
> > Anders Troback wrote:
> > > On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:14:38 +0200
> > > Tore Lund <toreld at netscape.net> wrote:
> > > 
> > >> Anders Troback wrote:
> > >>> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:25:05 +0400
> > >>> "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > >>>> I have it working fine on my current. Have you disabled agp in
> > >>>> kernel config?
> > >>> No, should I? Running on GENERIC!
> > >> It's a little easier to try it out by putting this line into
> > >> /boot/device.hints:
> > >>
> > >> hint.agp.0.disabled="1"
> > > 
> > > No, no luck!
> > > 
> > > This is the error from startx:
> > > 
> > > NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidiactl (No such
> > > file or directory).
> > > (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 ***
> > > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
> > > 
> > > And yes there is a Nvidia GPU in my system (at least when I'm
> > > running 6.2):-)
> > 
> > Hmmm.  What about dmesg?  Does it report the device nvidia0 or
> > anything else with nvidia chips?  And are you running
> > nvidia-settings?
> > 
> > The port nvidia-xconfig solved some problems for me by modifying my
> > xorg.conf.  And I solved a couple of other problems by browsing the
> > Nvidia knowledgebase:
> > 
> > http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php
> > 
> > (Though, I am running 6.1-RELEASE.)
> 
> Dmesg, nothing but pciconf outputs this info:
> 
> vgapci0 at pci1:0:0:       class=0x030000 card=0x01cc1028 chip=0x01d810de
> rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00 vendor   = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
>     class    = display
>     subclass = VGA
> 
> If I boot into my 6.2-PRERELASE it works...!
> 
> 
> \\troback
> 
> 

Is there anyone out there how can verify that the nvidia-driver are
working on current?

Thanks!!!


\\troback

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