GeForce GTX 750 Ti upgraded to unsupported

Russell L. Carter rcarter at pinyon.org
Wed Sep 14 01:21:18 UTC 2016


On 09/08/16 15:58, David Wolfskill wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 03:54:17PM -0700, Russell L. Carter wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Since I upgraded to 11/stable from 10/stable, it appears that my video
>> card is no longer supported by either nvidia-driver or nvidia-driver-340:
>> ...
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Russell
>> ....
>
> Have you tried x11/nvidia-driver-304?
>
> Peace,
> david   (who switched from nvidia-driver to nvidia-driver-340)
>

[Ben Woods suggested in a separate response to load nvidia-modeset]

I went down a long long path, which I hope to make more traveled.  Short
answer is:

1) poudriere bulk -c on upgrade is your friend (people told me this, I
    should listen to them).

2) Chop down old xorg.conf with lots of stuff linux has not needed for
    a while to $ cat /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia.conf

    Section "Device"
      Identifier "NVIDIA Card"
      VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
      Driver "nvidia"
     EndSection
	
3) add nvidia-modeset to kld_list in /etc/rc.conf

Upshot is now with x11/nvidia-driver benchmarks/glmark2 works fine,
and no complaints from clients.

So Ben, yeah, amongst the other two issues, you helped with that clue.
David, you gave me the idea to try the other drivers (and the nvidia
docs seem to indicate that hw support migrates down) and the identical
error produced by the other drivers was a clue as well.

Many thanks,
Russell


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