From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 30 13:25:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B05F16A41A for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:25:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org) Received: from catflap.slightlystrange.org (cpc5-cmbg1-0-0-cust497.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [86.6.1.242]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 408CC13C4F3 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:25:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org) Received: by catflap.slightlystrange.org (Postfix, from userid 106) id 4E52D613F; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:25:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from brick.slightlystrange.org (brick.slightlystrange.org [10.1.3.48]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by catflap.slightlystrange.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFF75610E for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:25:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: (from danielby@localhost) by brick.slightlystrange.org (8.14.2/8.13.4/Submit) id m0UDPovZ002409 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:25:50 GMT (envelope-from freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:25:50 +0000 From: Daniel Bye To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080130132550.GB1131@brick.slightlystrange.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <47A06CC5.2040905@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="98e8jtXdkpgskNou" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47A06CC5.2040905@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-PGP-Fingerprint: D349 B109 0EB8 2554 4D75 B79A 8B17 F97C 1622 166A X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 i386 Subject: Re: Nvidia video driver and Fb7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Bye List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:25:53 -0000 --98e8jtXdkpgskNou Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 12:25:41PM +0000, Kemian Dang wrote: > Hi, everyone, > I have installed the FB7-rc1 and the nvidia driver from port and kept=20 > update to the newest version, but when I change the xorg.conf to use the= =20 > "nvidia" instead of "nv", the X gave a complain about no /dev/nvidiactl= =20 > and stops, so I can only use nv, which seems slow on some 3d application. > I tried to download the source from nvidia web page to compile, but it=20 > said it is not for fb7 now. But, when I install from port, it did not=20 > give any error or warning. >=20 >=20 > So, have anyone tried nvidia driver on fb7 and succeed? Please give some= =20 > advice on how to solve this problem. Yep, no problems here. Are you sure the driver is loaded into your kernel? # kldstat Id Refs Address Size Name 1 15 0xc0400000 550b18 kernel 2 2 0xc099c000 28638 linux.ko ... 5 1 0xc0a18000 693b10 nvidia.ko You need these lines in /boot/loader.conf: nvidia_load=3D"YES" linux_load=3D"YES" (The Linux mod is if you built the driver with support for Linux DRI) Dan --=20 Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ --98e8jtXdkpgskNou Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHoHreixf5fBYiFmoRAt5gAKCm8rQsSYjSGMQsvuwMA6eJSmWN4QCg0C7m xMVX9vMvjmdtOV9SUFHA1CA= =Kp4x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --98e8jtXdkpgskNou--