Nvidia doesn't start on cryptic errors

Vittorio De Martino vittorio at de-martino.it
Mon May 28 13:18:25 UTC 2007


On my newly bought HP pavillion 6366 notebook with freebsd 6.2 - p4 and one of 
the latest portsnap I have an nvidia go 7400 card, *** fully *** supported by 
the nvidia driver according to the docs.

I followed the minimal configuration by nvidia-xconfig and just taiored the 
language for the keyboard....BUT 
  startx fails to load X and in the log file I find I find the below reported 
errors.

Being a beginner I find myself somewhat disorientated by these errors that I 
couldn't find surfing the net.

Please help
Ciao
Vittorio


<extract from Xorg.0.log>
........................................................

(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
	compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.9746
	Module class: X.Org Server Extension
	ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.1
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
	compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.9746
	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
....................................
(II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver  1.0-9746  Tue Dec 19 13:23:45 PST 2006
(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
(--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
(--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found
(II) Loading sub module "fb"
(II) LoadModule: "fb"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libfb.so
(II) Module fb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
	compiled for 6.9.0, module version = 1.0.0
	ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.2
(II) Loading sub module "wfb"
(II) LoadModule: "wfb"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libwfb.so
dlopen: Shared object "librpcsvc.so.2" not found, required by "libwfb.so"
(EE) Failed to load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libwfb.so
(II) UnloadModule: "wfb"
(EE) Failed to load module "wfb" (loader failed, 7)
(II) Loading sub module "ramdac"
(II) LoadModule: "ramdac"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libramdac.so
(II) Module ramdac: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
	compiled for 6.9.0, module version = 0.1.0
	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.8
(II) resource ranges after xf86ClaimFixedResources() call:
.....................
(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! Please ensure
(EE) NVIDIA(0):     that there is a supported NVIDIA GPU in this system, and
(EE) NVIDIA(0):     that the NVIDIA device files have been created properly. 
(EE) NVIDIA(0):     Please consult the NVIDIA README for details.
(EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(II) UnloadModule: "ramdac"
(II) UnloadModule: "fb"
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
</extract from Xorg.0.log>


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