No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!

[Sean Bryant]

Norbert Papke wrote:
> On Monday 12 March 2007 20:58, sean at cyberwang.net wrote:
>   
>> I'm actually having the same problem, but after I took out device agp out
>> of my kernel. And I still cannot start x with nvidia driver.
>>
>> It complains that /dev/nvidiactl couldn't be opened. And then it says it
>> failed to load the kernel module.
>>     
>
> It seems that the graphics card is not detected.  Does 
>
> 'pciconf -l | grep nvidia'
>
> show anything?
>
> What model is it?  If it is an older card, you may need the older version of 
> the NVIDIA driver.
>
>   
>> sysctl -a | grep nvidia
>> hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module  1.0-9746  Tue Dec 19
>> 13:20:59 PST 2006
>> hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x: 0
>> hw.nvidia.registry.EnableALiAGP: 0
>> hw.nvidia.registry.NvAGP: 1
>> hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0
>> hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0
>> hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1
>> hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295
>> hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295
>> hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode: 0
>> hw.nvidia.registry.DevicesConnected: 0
>> hw.nvidia.registry.RmLogonRC: 1
>> hw.nvidia.registry.DetectPrimaryVga: 1
>> hw.nvidia.registry.dwords:
>>     
>
> For comparison, here is my output.  Note that  there are card specific 
> entries.
>
> # sysctl -a | grep nvidia
>        nvidia   603  1293K       -    38844  
> 16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096
> nvidia0: <GeForce 7600 GS> port 0xbc00-0xbc7f mem 
> 0xfd000000-0xfdffffff,0xc0000000-0xcfffffff,0xfc000000-0xfcffffff irq 16 at 
> device 0.0 on pci3
> nvidia0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module  1.0-9746  Tue Dec 19 
> 13:20:59 PST 2006
> hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x: 0
> hw.nvidia.registry.EnableALiAGP: 0
> hw.nvidia.registry.NvAGP: 1
> hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0
> hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0
> hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1
> hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295
> hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295
> hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode: 0
> hw.nvidia.registry.DevicesConnected: 0
> hw.nvidia.registry.RmLogonRC: 1
> hw.nvidia.registry.DetectPrimaryVga: 1
> hw.nvidia.registry.dwords:
> hw.nvidia.cards.0.model: GeForce 7600 GS
> hw.nvidia.cards.0.irq: 16
> hw.nvidia.cards.0.vbios: 05.73.22.16.02
> hw.nvidia.cards.0.type: PCI-E
> dev.nvidia.0.%desc: GeForce 7600 GS
> dev.nvidia.0.%driver: nvidia
> dev.nvidia.0.%location: slot=0 function=0
> dev.nvidia.0.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x10de device=0x0392 subvendor=0x3842 
> subdevice=0xc547 class=0x030000
> dev.nvidia.0.%parent: pci3
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It seems the driver is attached:
nvidia0 at pci1:0:0:       class=0x030000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x00f910de 
rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00

its a 6800 GT. From BFG.  I am on CURRENT. And xorg 6.9.0