Re: How to determine the correct graphics card driver

On Sat, 16 Jul 2022 at 11:22, Rocky Hotas <rockyhotas@post.com> wrote:

> Hello!
> After installing FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE amd64 on an old machine with Intel
> Pentium E5300, I would like to properly configure the graphics card.
> Currently the display has a 640x480 resolution and I'm struggling to
> find the right graphics driver.
>
> `pciconf -lv' shows:
>
> vgapci0@pci0:0:16:0:    class=0x030000 rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x10de
> device=0x07e1 subvendor=0x1734 subdevice=0x115b
>     vendor     = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
>     device     = 'C73 [GeForce 7100 / nForce 630i]'
>     class      = display
>     subclass   = VGA
>
> So I guessed that it's an NVIDIA card. According to the link in Section
> 2.1 of
>
>  <
> https://docs.freebsd.org/doc/7.3-RELEASE/usr/share/doc/en/articles/compiz-fusion/nvidia-setup.html
> >
>
> (which is https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/legacy-gpu/)
>
> such a device is supported by the `304.xx' driver. So, I installed the
> package nvidia-driver-304-304.137_9 and added `kldlist="nvidia"' to
> /etc/rc.conf as instructed. The driver installs in fact
> `/boot/modules/nvidia.ko'.
>
> However, this had no success. The resolution is still 640x480. Some
> relevant lines in the dmesg(8) possibly are:
>
> vtvga0: <VT VGA driver>
> vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> mem
> 0xfd000000-0xfdffffff,0xe0000000-0xefffffff,0xfc000000-0xfcffffff irq 22
> at device 16.0 on pci0
> vgapci0: Boot video device
> ...
> linker_load_file: /boot/kernel/atanvidia.ko - unsupported file type
> nvidia0: <GeForce 7100 / nForce 630i> on vgapci0
> vgapci0: child nvidia0 requested pci_enable_io
>
> Here are the full outputs
> - of dmesg(8): http://rockyhotas.freeshell.org/dmesg1
> - of `pciconf -lv': http://rockyhotas.freeshell.org/pciconf1
> - of dmidecode(8): http://rockyhotas.freeshell.org/dmidecode1
>
> First, is this the correct driver? And, if so, what is possibly wrong?
>
> Rocky
>
> The documentation link it’s from an old version,
The current is:
https://docs.freebsd.org/en/