xorg nvidia

[Aryeh Friedman]

This is a known issue with all nvidia cards and xorg 7.3... nvidia
should release an updated driver very soon... until then to get some
possible hints do a search of this list for nvidia issues.

--Aryeh

On 9/28/07, Marcel Cuculici <nuambenzina at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> To install nvidia driver 100.14.11 i did "cd /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/
> && make install clean" and afther that "rehash" and "nvidia-xconfig", but
> the X dose not start and give this error:
> ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
> Insomniak# startx
> xauth:  creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.828
> xauth: (argv):1:  bad display name "Insomniak.nuambenzina.ro:0" in "list"
> comman
> d
> xauth: (stdin):1:  bad display name "Insomniak.nuambenzina.ro:0" in "add"
> comman
> d
>
>
> X.Org X Server 1.4.0
> Release Date: 5 September 2007
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
> Build Operating System: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE i386
> Current Operating System: FreeBSD Insomniak.nuambenzina.ro 6.2-STABLEFreeBSD 6.
> 2-STABLE #0: Thu Sep 27 23:19:23 EEST 2007     root at Insomniak.nuambenzina.ro
> :/us
> r/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
> Build Date: 28 September 2007  08:07:07AM
>
>         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: Sat Sep 29 00:04:41 2007
> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): ============= WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING =============
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): This server has a video driver ABI version of 2.0 but this
> (EE) NVIDIA(0):     driver is designed to work with versions before 2.0.
> (EE) NVIDIA(0):     Please check http://www.nvidia.com/ for driver updates
> or
> (EE) NVIDIA(0):     downgrade to an X server with a supported driver ABI.
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): ===========================================================
> (II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
> NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidiactl (No such file or
> directory
> ).
> (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 ***
> :
> Release Date: 5 September 2007
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
> Build Operating System: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE i386
> Current Operating System: FreeBSD Insomniak.nuambenzina.ro 6.2-STABLEFreeBSD 6.
> 2-STABLE #0: Thu Sep 27 23:19:23 EEST 2007     root at Insomniak.nuambenzina.ro
> :/us
> r/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
> Build Date: 28 September 2007  08:07:07AM
>
>         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: Sat Sep 29 00:04:41 2007
> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): ============= WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING =============
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): This server has a video driver ABI version of 2.0 but this
> (EE) NVIDIA(0):     driver is designed to work with versions before 2.0.
> (EE) NVIDIA(0):     Please check http://www.nvidia.com/ for driver updates
> or
> (EE) NVIDIA(0):     downgrade to an X server with a supported driver ABI.
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): ===========================================================
> (II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
> NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidiactl (No such file or
> directory
> ).
> (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 ***
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
>
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> xauth: (argv):1:  bad display name "Insomniak.nuambenzina.ro:0" in "remove"
> comm
> and
>
> ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
>
> In /usr/ports/UPDATING it`s say:
>
>
> "20070913:
>   AFFECTS: users of x11/xorg, x11/nvidia-driver
>   AUTHOR: flz at FreeBSD.org
>
>   X.org ports were updated to 7.3.  Since we're now using the modular
>   build, the upgrade is pretty much painless.  If you're using the
>   x11/xorg meta-port, upgrade should be as easy as:
>
>   # portupgrade -R xorg
>
>   Users of nvidia-driver will have to make sure Composite extension is
>   turned off and start Xorg with the following command:
>
>   $ startx -- -ignoreABI
>
>   The -ignoreABI option is a Xorg option. If you're using gdm, kdm or
>   xdm, you will have to modify your configuration file so that Xorg
>   starts with this option.
>
>   An updated nvidia-driver should be released soon."
>
>
> I did tryed to start x with "startx -- -ignoreABI" but it gives the same
> error.
> The port`s are up-to-date, (I used portsnap) and I i did an portupgrade -a
> -r -R but x dose not start with "nvidia" line.
> Any Ideeas to start X with nvidia driver except waiting for a new driver?
> How i do an downgrade to xorg to use this nvidia driver?
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