No devices detected for NVIDIA card.

blubee blubeeme gurenchan at gmail.com
Wed Jan 3 12:24:14 UTC 2018


On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 7:48 PM, Kovacs Zoltan <kovacsz2013 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> *From:* blubee blubeeme <gurenchan 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 5:29 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: No devices detected for NVIDIA card.
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> On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 6:17 PM, Kovacs Zoltan <kovacsz2013 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
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> *From:* blubee blubeeme <gurenchan at gmail.com>
> *To:* Kovacs Zoltan <kovacsz2013 at yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com>; "freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org" <
> freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 3, 2018 5:04 PM
> *Subject:* Re: No devices detected for NVIDIA card.
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> On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 4:49 PM, Kovacs Zoltan via freebsd-x11 <
> freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>       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 10:37 AM
>  Subject: Re: No devices detected for NVIDIA card.
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> On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 7:52 PM, Kovacs Zoltan <kovacsz2013 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
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> 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"
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> 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.
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> On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 11:10 AM, Kovacs Zoltan via freebsd-x11 <
> freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org> wrote:
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> Dear all!
> When I start Xorg on a laptop with FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE it falls back with
> the message "No devices detected".
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> What are the content's of your /boot/loader.conf?
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> --
> Adam
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> 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
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> --
> Adam
> I have
> linux_load="YES"
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> nvidia-modeset_load="YES"
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> in /boot/loader.conf
> and I deleted the line kld_list="nvidia-modeset" from /etc/rc.conf, i.e.
> no nvidia specific settings are in /etc/rc.conf now. However, xorg still
> generates the error message "No devices found".
> I have checked the information on such errors generated by xorg in
> /usr/local/share/doc/NVIDIA_ GLX-1.0/README  but I could not find anything.
> Zoltan
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> Are you on a laptop or desktop?
>
> I have a laptop with integrated graphics and dedicated GPU in my bios if I
> disable discrete graphics I get the behavior that you're talking about.
>
> If you are on a laptop check the motherboard bios settings.
>
> Yes, I have a Lenovo 320S-13IKB laptop. Actually, nor the touchpad neither
> the wireless network card works with FreeBSD. I hoped I can use the NVIDIA
> graphics card at least. So you mean I should find some settings in BIOS for
> discrete graphics and enable it?
>
> Yes, please check your bios and enable the "discrete" graphics, not the
> hybrid;
>
> The touchpad should be able to get fixed although mine doesn't work well
> either, it's something that I plan to look into getting fixed but there are
> more pressing issues at the moment.
>
> I am not sure what wifi chipset you have but something really new might
> not work.
> Find out the wifi card and post that here as well.
>
> @Adrian Chadd is the wireless guru for FreeBSD, he might be able to chime
> in for that.
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> I went into the BIOS Setup Utility and checked the Configuration options.
> Although some older Lenovo laptops had an option Display/Graphics Device
> there, it is completely missing from the list of  the Configuration options
> of my laptop. I guess it is not an option any more.
>
> The wifi card would not work anyway since the laptop has a Qualcomm
> Atheros 9377 802.11ac wifi adapter which is not supported by FreeBSD
> according to the dev/ath_al(4)/Hardware Support list. I can still survive
> with an TP-LINK wifi adapter USB stick, thus it will be OK.
>
> The touchpad will be more problematic though. I guess I will open a new
> thread about it in mailing list "freebsd-drivers". :-)
>
> Sorry to hear about your issues but these are some of the things that I'd
like to improve in FreeBSD.

I'd like people to be able to guy buy a modern device and have things just
work.

In time.


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