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(8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l2DFWF66099489 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:32:15 -0700 (PDT envelope-from fbsd-ml@scrapper.ca) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:32:14 -0700 From: Norbert Papke In-reply-to: <39547.68.184.120.224.1173758324.squirrel@webmail.cyberwang.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <200703130832.15210.fbsd-ml@scrapper.ca> Organization: Archaeological Filing MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <45F541F3.5040309@planet.nl> <45F61BE0.8060502@hier7.com> <39547.68.184.120.224.1173758324.squirrel@webmail.cyberwang.net> X-Authentication-warning: proven.: npapke set sender to fbsd-ml@scrapper.ca using -f User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Subject: Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help! 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: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:43:49 -0000 On Monday 12 March 2007 20:58, sean@cyberwang.net wrote: > I'm actually having the same problem, but after I took out device agp out > of my kernel. And I still cannot start x with nvidia driver. > > It complains that /dev/nvidiactl couldn't be opened. And then it says it > failed to load the kernel module. It seems that the graphics card is not detected. Does 'pciconf -l | grep nvidia' show anything? What model is it? If it is an older card, you may need the older version of the NVIDIA driver. > > sysctl -a | grep nvidia > hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 1.0-9746 Tue Dec 19 > 13:20:59 PST 2006 > hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x: 0 > hw.nvidia.registry.EnableALiAGP: 0 > hw.nvidia.registry.NvAGP: 1 > hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0 > hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0 > hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1 > hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295 > hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295 > hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode: 0 > hw.nvidia.registry.DevicesConnected: 0 > hw.nvidia.registry.RmLogonRC: 1 > hw.nvidia.registry.DetectPrimaryVga: 1 > hw.nvidia.registry.dwords: For comparison, here is my output. Note that there are card specific entries. # sysctl -a | grep nvidia nvidia 603 1293K - 38844 16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096 nvidia0: port 0xbc00-0xbc7f mem 0xfd000000-0xfdffffff,0xc0000000-0xcfffffff,0xfc000000-0xfcffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci3 nvidia0: [GIANT-LOCKED] hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 1.0-9746 Tue Dec 19 13:20:59 PST 2006 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableALiAGP: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.NvAGP: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.DevicesConnected: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.RmLogonRC: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.DetectPrimaryVga: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.dwords: hw.nvidia.cards.0.model: GeForce 7600 GS hw.nvidia.cards.0.irq: 16 hw.nvidia.cards.0.vbios: 05.73.22.16.02 hw.nvidia.cards.0.type: PCI-E dev.nvidia.0.%desc: GeForce 7600 GS dev.nvidia.0.%driver: nvidia dev.nvidia.0.%location: slot=0 function=0 dev.nvidia.0.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x10de device=0x0392 subvendor=0x3842 subdevice=0xc547 class=0x030000 dev.nvidia.0.%parent: pci3