Nvidia doesn't start on cryptic errors

[Garrett Cooper]

Vittorio De Martino wrote:
> Il Monday 28 May 2007 14:51:04 John Nielsen ha scritto:
>> On Monday 28 May 2007 11:18:07 Vittorio De Martino wrote:
>>> On my newly bought HP pavillion 6366 notebook with freebsd 6.2 - p4 and
>>> one of the latest portsnap I have an nvidia go 7400 card, *** fully ***
>>> supported by the nvidia driver according to the docs.
>>>
>>> I followed the minimal configuration by nvidia-xconfig and just taiored
>>> the language for the keyboard....BUT
>>>   startx fails to load X and in the log file I find I find the below
>>> reported errors.
>>>
>>> Being a beginner I find myself somewhat disorientated by these errors
>>> that I couldn't find surfing the net.
>>>
>>> (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 ***
>> Not too cryptic. Make sure that the nvidia kernel module is loaded and try
>> again. To verify, type "kldstat". If nvidia.ko is not listed, type "kldload
>> nvidia". To load it automatically on boot (which is the only way for it to
>> load successfully), add a line like this to /boot/loader.conf:
>>
>> nvidia_load="YES"
>>
>> Then reboot.
>>
> 
> Actually the nvidia.ko mdule was and is loaded
> hpbsd# kldstat
> Id Refs Address    Size     Name
>  1   24 0xc0400000 5b33d8   kernel
> ..................................
>  4    3 0xc0a7e000 1e058    linux.ko
>  5    1 0xc0a9d000 435c     acpi_video.ko
>  6    3 0xc0aa2000 61ba0    acpi.ko
>  7    1 0xc0b04000 6d4de0   nvidia.ko
>  8    1 0xc11d9000 aed4     cpufreq.ko
>  9    1 0xc11e4000 4a2c     acpi_ibm.ko
> ..................................
> 15    1 0xc7245000 2000     rtc.ko
> 
> I was able to eliminate the following error
> --------------------
> (II) LoadModule: "wfb"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libwfb.so
> dlopen: Shared object "librpcsvc.so.2" not found, required by "libwfb.so"
> (EE) Failed to load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libwfb.so
> ------------------
> because the required librpcsvc.so.2 has become  (and is presente as) 
> librpcsvc.so.3. Therefore I linked 
> ln -s librpcsvc.so.3 librpcsvc.so.2
> 
> That's ok now BUT
> 
> NVIDIA: could not open the device /dev/nvidiactl 
> (II) Setting vga for screen 0.
> (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
> (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
> (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
> (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
> (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
> (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.
> 
> still something incorrect prevents startx to fire X.
> The problems seems to be /dev/nvidiactl!
> 
> Please help - Vittorio

Add yourself to the video group and chown/mod the /dev node until you 
have read, write, and executable access.

-Garrett