About KDE (X-Windows, in fact)

Teilhard Knight teilhk at softhome.net
Mon Apr 5 14:02:55 PDT 2004


> On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 02:10:35AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote:
> > I posted about my problem in the questions group, but I only got replies
> > from one person, and although helpful, it didn't solve my problem.
> >
> > It's about my Leadtek WinFast GeForce3 graphics card with NVIDIA
chipset. It
> > was working all right (for simple tasks, I didn't try games or something
> > complicated) with the driver "nv". I decided to install the NVIDIA
driver
> > for FreeBSD, and now I am getting the error message: "NVIDIA: Chipset
> > "GeForce3 in Device section card0 isn't valid for this driver." I cannot
>
>
> Try removing (if there is it) the line Chipset in your device
> section (XF86


You got it. I removed the line, and I could start KDE all right.


> Read also these documents:
>
> /usr/X11R6/share/doc/NVIDIA/README
> /usr/X11R6/share/doc/NVIDIA/README.Linux
> /usr/X11R6/share/doc/NVIDIA/XF86Config.sample
>
> And check /var/log/XFree86.0.log


I had read them already. Had to add the option: "USER_LDT" and recompile my
kernel.

Thanks so much for taking the time to give me your advise.

Teilhard



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