Nvidia doesn't start on cryptic errors

[Federico Lorenzi]

I had this problem only yesterday, and I couldn't get it to work, but
i played around with the Agp options and rebooted and it worked. Sorry
I dont have anymore info about how i did it.

HTH
Federico

On 5/28/07, Garrett Cooper <youshi10 at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> Garrett Cooper wrote:
> > 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
>
> Vittorio,
>
> Hint: Everything in the Xorg.0.log file with...
> 	...(EE) right before it, generally means that it's a problem ;).
> 	...(WW) sometimes mean you should consider what's being said.
>
> -Garrett
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