From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 27 15:54:09 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 8B35B1065679 for ; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:54:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 606E78FC1F for ; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:54:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 18527 invoked from network); 27 Dec 2008 15:54:08 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 27 Dec 2008 15:54:08 -0000 Received: from lowell-desk.lan (lowell-desk.lan [172.30.250.6]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7F8D50820; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:54:05 -0500 (EST) Received: by lowell-desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 559561CEE7; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:54:04 -0500 (EST) To: af300wsm@gmail.com References: <001636458c861e94e4045ef719cf@google.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:54:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: <001636458c861e94e4045ef719cf@google.com> (af300wsm@gmail.com's message of "Fri\, 26 Dec 2008 18\:14\:38 +0000") Message-ID: <443ag97gx0.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Having issues with the nvidia driver on my box X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:54:09 -0000 af300wsm@gmail.com writes: > For several reasons, one of which was to use the nvidia driver for my > board, I switched from amd64 to i386. So, I installed the driver and > although things are working I'm getting this on console 0: > > NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the amd CPU and OS kernel > NVRM: kernel upgrade recommended Do you have AGP in the kernel? > So, when I installed the nvidia driver I said to enable AGP. (Figuring > only that this is an AGP board, why not?) If you say 'no' to that, I think it will use its own AGP driver instead of the native one. > ps in case it matters, my board is rather "old." I purchased it 4 > years ago and as I'm not a gamer, it suffices quite nicely. Here's > the driver I had to install for support of this chip: > > nvidia-driver-96.43.07 NVidia graphics card binary drivers for > hardware OpenGL ren What do you use NVidia's driver for? If find that the open-source nv driver works just fine for most things (I, too, do not play games on my desktop computer). Until I installed Google Earth, the proprietary driver was completely unnecessary for me. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/