From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 16 00:07:06 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-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 91C0D16A41F for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:07:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsh.lists@comcast.net) Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.198.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C959343D45 for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:07:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsh.lists@comcast.net) Received: from [192.168.1.102] (tardiss.hsd1.ma.comcast.net[66.30.82.93]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2005091600070401300h52j6e>; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:07:04 +0000 Message-ID: <432A0CA4.5030906@comcast.net> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:07:00 -0400 From: Sean User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050907) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: nvidia drivers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: rsh.lists@comcast.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:07:06 -0000 I am using a test system and have been try to get the nvidia drivers working. I am running freebsd 5.3 release, nvidia ultra 6800 256mb, and tried installing the drivers using the port. Went through all the info I can find and tried various things and no luck. On a fresh install of 5.3, I installed te nvidia driver using the port and after startx, (with no .xinitrc), it started fine. When I exited this test there were two lines about this kernel (generic) and version of FreeBSD not being able to support agp. I cvs'd up and rebuilt all ports. Kernel still running generic install and now have the below error. dmesg does show the nvidia0: with various info after. dmesg also show on the next line nvidia0: [giant-locked] The final line of dmesg shows 'interrupt storm detected on "irq16: nvidia0:; throttling interrupt source' Doing a startx, there is no .xinitrc in place, it fails. One line shows 'nvidia: could not open the device file /dev/nvidiactl (unknown error: 999). The some lines about failing to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module, and check to see if there is a supported GPU in the system. Also a line about Screen(s) found, but none have usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found. Checking the Xorg log it even states a NVIDIA GPU is found. The only thing that catches my attention is that it states (II) UnloadableModule "nvidia". Anyone have success getting the nidia driver to run? Thanks Sean