Nvidia doesn't start on cryptic errors

[Garrett Cooper]

Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Vittorio De Martino wrote:
>> Il Monday 28 May 2007 14:51:04 John Nielsen ha scritto:
>>> On Monday 28 May 2007 11:18:07 Vittorio De Martino wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> (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 ***
>>> Not too cryptic. Make sure that the nvidia kernel module is loaded 
>>> and try
>>> again. To verify, type "kldstat". If nvidia.ko is not listed, type 
>>> "kldload
>>> nvidia". To load it automatically on boot (which is the only way for 
>>> it to
>>> load successfully), add a line like this to /boot/loader.conf:
>>>
>>> nvidia_load="YES"
>>>
>>> Then reboot.
>>>
>>
>> Actually the nvidia.ko mdule was and is loaded
>> hpbsd# kldstat
>> Id Refs Address    Size     Name
>>  1   24 0xc0400000 5b33d8   kernel
>> ..................................
>>  4    3 0xc0a7e000 1e058    linux.ko
>>  5    1 0xc0a9d000 435c     acpi_video.ko
>>  6    3 0xc0aa2000 61ba0    acpi.ko
>>  7    1 0xc0b04000 6d4de0   nvidia.ko
>>  8    1 0xc11d9000 aed4     cpufreq.ko
>>  9    1 0xc11e4000 4a2c     acpi_ibm.ko
>> ..................................
>> 15    1 0xc7245000 2000     rtc.ko
>>
>> I was able to eliminate the following error
>> --------------------
>> (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
>> ------------------
>> because the required librpcsvc.so.2 has become  (and is presente as) 
>> librpcsvc.so.3. Therefore I linked ln -s librpcsvc.so.3 librpcsvc.so.2
>>
>> That's ok now BUT
>>
>> NVIDIA: could not open the device /dev/nvidiactl (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.
>>
>> still something incorrect prevents startx to fire X.
>> The problems seems to be /dev/nvidiactl!
>>
>> Please help - Vittorio
> 
> Add yourself to the video group and chown/mod the /dev node until you 
> have read, write, and executable access.
> 
> -Garrett

Vittorio,

Hint: Everything in the Xorg.0.log file with...
	...(EE) right before it, generally means that it's a problem ;).
	...(WW) sometimes mean you should consider what's being said.

-Garrett