need help with nvidia drivers

[Super Biscuit]

The following files do not exist on my system
/compat/linux/sbin/modprobe
/dev/nvidia1
/dev/nvidia2
%nvidia-settings --glxinfo
GLX Information for pocket-peoples.net.:0.0:
Segmentation fault


--- On Wed, 11/4/09, Daniel C. Dowse <dcdowse at gmx.net> wrote:

From: Daniel C. Dowse <dcdowse at gmx.net>
Subject: Re: need help with nvidia drivers
To: "Super Biscuit" <super_bisquit at yahoo.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 1:50 PM


Hi 

in xorg.conf

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "dri" <-- REMOVE THIS !
 
Have you checked out this link before ?
http://us.download.nvidia.com/freebsd/173.14.12/README/index.html


On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 04:29:14 -0800 (PST)
Super Biscuit <super_bisquit at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The reason for multiple posts and the titles is because The original post was considered spam by the freebsd-questions mailing list and webmaster. It had all of the relevant information in it.
> Next time you may want ask me why I do something before making an uninformed and asinine response.
> 
> Here is the information you asked for: %uname -a
> FreeBSD pocket-peoples.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May  1 08:49:13 UTC 2009     root at walker.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> 
> 
> --- On Wed, 11/4/09, Daniel C. Dowse <dcdowse at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> From: Daniel C. Dowse <dcdowse at gmx.net>
> Subject: Re: need help with nvidia drivers
> To: "Super Biscuit" <super_bisquit at yahoo.com>
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 9:52 AM
> 
> On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:55:34 -0800 (PST)
> Super Biscuit <super_bisquit at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm not able to use the glx settings on my computer.
> > RGB comes back as a double buffer error.
> > 

best regards

daniel

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