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To: Mike O'Brien <mikeobrien@spamcop.net>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:35:55 PST."
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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:20:23 -0800
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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Subject: Re: X.org 6.9 doesn't work with NVidia 7800 GTX (fwd) 
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> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:35:55 -0800
> From: Mike O'Brien <mikeobrien@spamcop.net>
> 
> Kevin Oberman wrote:
> 
> >>From: mikeobrien@spamcop.net (Mike O'Brien)
> >>Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:44:43 -0800
> >>Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> >>If I run X -probeonly,
> >>I get a message that "module fbdev cannot be found".
> >>
> >I installed nvidia-driver and nvidia-xconfig. It worked
> >immediately. nvidia-xconfig modifies the existing xorg.conf (or
> >XF85Config) to work with the nvidia driver.
> >  
> >
>     Do I need to worry about "module 'fbdev' not found"?
> That doesn't sound good and makes me wonder if X.org
> might be misconfigured out of the box.

fbdev is not used. You should not have it listed in the "Modules"
section. Several other modules are gone as their functionality has been
rolled into the base system. I suspect fbdev is such a obsolete.

If in doubt, use Xorg -configure and let nvidia-xconfig put in the nVidia
specific config into the output.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634