Nvidia Driver

[Adam Stroud]

Well,

That poses a problem.  During the upgrade (via portupgrade) my machine
rebooted on it's own and now won't boot.  I think I am getting a
kernel error that I was just about to post in another email to the
questions list.  I will copy you on that post.

A

On 7/15/05, nawcom <nawcom at nawcom.no-ip.com> wrote:
> if you can, go ahead and print out your xorg.conf settings and the log
> file for it. I am suspicous that theres something up with that.
> 
> Ben
> 
> Ian Moore wrote:
> 
> >On Friday 15 July 2005 12:37, Adam Stroud wrote:
> >
> >
> >>All:
> >>
> >>I am having a problem getting my nvidia video card to work since I
> >>portupgraded to the latest nvidia driver in the port.  I had
> >>everything working find using many of the old verions.  Then I
> >>upgraded to the latest version and now when I attempt tp startx, I
> >>get:
> >>
> >>X Window System Version 6.8.2
> >>
> >>Release Date: 9 February 2005
> >>
> >>X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2
> >>
> >>Build Operating System: FreeBSD 5.4 i386 [ELF]
> >>
> >>Current Operating System: FreeBSD osirus.stronet.dyndns.org 5.4-STABLE
> >>FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Fri Jun 24 23:25:37 EDT 2005
> >>adam at osirus.stronet.dyndns.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/APS_KERN i386
> >>
> >>Build Date: 24 June 2005
> >>
> >>      Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
> >>
> >>      to make sure that you have the latest version.
> >>
> >>Module Loader present
> >>
> >>Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
> >>
> >>      (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
> >>
> >>      (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> >>
> >>(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Jul 14 22:50:09 2005
> >>
> >>(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
> >>
> >>(EE) Failed to load module "speedo" (module does not exist, 0)
> >>
> >>(EE) No devices detected.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Fatal server error:
> >>
> >>no screens found
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
> >>
> >>       at http://wiki.X.Org
> >>
> >> for help.
> >>
> >>Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional
> >>information.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> >>
> >>
> >>adam at osirus:/boot>exit
> >>
> >>exit
> >>
> >>I looked and /var/log/messages, and FreeBSD sees the video card and  I
> >>verified that the module is loaded with kldinfo.  As I said,
> >>everything worked fine with the older version of the port.  Does
> >>anyone have any ideas?
> >>
> >>Thanks
> >>A
> >>
> >>
> >
> >What card do you have - nvidia have dropped support for older chipsets - take
> >a look at /usr/ports/UPDATING for details.
> >That might be the cause of your problem.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >
> 
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