From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 25 21:41:23 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E93D916A41F for ; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 21:41:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from nagual.st (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.2.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4666443D53 for ; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 21:41:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from pooh.nagual.st (pooh.nagual.st [192.168.11.22]) by nagual.st with esmtp; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 23:41:22 +0200 id 000000BA.43371982.0000F746 Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 23:41:26 +0200 From: dick hoogendijk To: fbsdq Message-Id: <20050925234126.78c3f537.dick@nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <43371168.8020900@dial.pipex.com> References: <20050925225642.1e70520e.dick@nagual.st> <43371168.8020900@dial.pipex.com> Organization: de nagual X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.1 (GTK+ 2.6.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the AMD CPU and OS kernel X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 21:41:24 -0000 On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 22:06:48 +0100 Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > dick hoogendijk wrote: > > >I have problems getting the nvidia driver to work. > >I get these error msgs starting X > > > >NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the AMD CPU and OS > >kernel NVRM: kernel upgrade recommended > > > >+ I recompiled my generic kernel and leave option AGP out. > >(nvidia's agp gart is used then) > >+ I use FreeBSD-5.4p7 > >+ AGP card is "GeForce 6600 GT" > >+ CPU: Athlon64 3400+ > > > >I looked into the README file and did some googling but could not > >find an answer. Where does this error msg come from? > >What can I do about it? > > > >I did a normal portinstall of the nvidia driver so it's compiled > >*not* to use freebsd's agp.ko > > > >Although Xorg seems to work I'd rather know what the problem is.. > > > > > > > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=52388 OK, I read the news msgs on this board and get the impression you're trying to say to me it's because I use an amd64? But I run a normal i386 FreeBSD OS on this machine, one for which the nvidia driver is written. So I don't expect 64bit warnings on this 32bits machine. -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11-stable ++ FreeBSD 5.4 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja