No devices detected for NVIDIA card.

[Adam Vande More]

On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 7:52 PM, Kovacs Zoltan <kovacsz2013 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dear Adam,
>
> The /boot/loader.conf file contains
>
> if_urtwn_load="YES"
> hw.psm.elantech_support="1"
> sem_load="YES"
> nvidia_load="YES"
> nvidia-modeset_load="YES"
>
> The /etc/rc.conf contains
>
> hostname="ideapad320s"
> sshd_enable="YES"
> dumpdev="AUTO"
> hald_enable="YES"
> dbus_enable="YES"
> moused_enable="YES"
> linux_enable="YES"
> slim_enable="YES"
> wlans_urtwn0="wlan0"
> ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
> kld_list="nvidia-modeset"
>
>
> I don not know if there is any discrepancy between the nvidia setting in
> the two files. I guessed not.
>
> Kind regards,
> Zoltan
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com>
> *To:* Kovacs Zoltan <kovacsz2013 at yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* "freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 3, 2018 12:59 AM
> *Subject:* Re: No devices detected for NVIDIA card.
>
> On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 11:10 AM, Kovacs Zoltan via freebsd-x11 <
> freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Dear all!
> When I start Xorg on a laptop with FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE it falls back with
> the message "No devices detected".
>
>
> What are the content's of your /boot/loader.conf?
>
> --
> Adam
>
>
>
Put this in /boot/loader.conf:

nvidia-modeset_load="YES"

Remove nvidia related entries from /etc/rc.conf

You may need linux_load="YES" in loader as well if applicable.

Reboot after entries are made.

/usr/local/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README

-- 
Adam