Failed to load module "nv" ...

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On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:42:19 +0200
"Kiffin Gish" <kiffin.gish at planet.nl> wrote:

> The other day I upgraded to xorg 7.2 but when I run startx I get the
> following error message:
> 
> --> Failed to load module "nv"
> 
> Rather that using the nvidia driver from the ports I had earlier
> downloaded the official freebsd driver from the nvidia site, but had
> installed it into the old xorg environment under /usr/X11R6.

nv is the open-source driver from xorg, if your xorg.conf entry
specifies nv then you've not actually been the using the driver from
the nvidia site, which is called nvidia.

x11/nvidia-driver is the port of nvidia's binary, the open source
version has only got its own port with the modularization of xorg in
7.2.