From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 17 05:59:38 2004 Return-Path: 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 63C4D16A4CE for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 05:59:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web51102.mail.yahoo.com (web51102.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.38.144]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DCB5243D45 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 05:59:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from raincip@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 33461 invoked by uid 60001); 17 Dec 2004 05:59:37 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=MudI8mUrof9olvmJjWVPxiy9NT7H5sNLTaByfLPu1rQX0hxeT+1ZDkZY9jEk4k976COKFQ7TQj06TYI+1wv0yoTvq12vAK+6RrCsioQZUGtEIoH5WksIJrbhDIbEWP6LwVQ3wLg4HhZzux5lngrlgQBKYQgabEwF10sz4gjebvQ= ; Message-ID: <20041217055937.33459.qmail@web51102.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [67.177.237.27] by web51102.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 16 Dec 2004 21:59:37 PST Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 21:59:37 -0800 (PST) From: rain cip To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Help troubleshoot the nvidia driver and x display problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 05:59:38 -0000 Hello, I need some help to troubleshoot why the X doesn't come up after installing the latest nvidia driver from the port tree. I have no X display problem prior to replacing the generic vga driver with the new nvidia driver. I installed the driver via the ports tree, added a line to turn off agp.ko in device.hint, edited xorg.conf per the readme file from the driver download, then rebooted the box. When it tried to start the X server, the screen flashed a few times then gave me the following errors: kdm: Abnormal termination of greeter for display:0, code 1, singal 0 (the line above repeats five times) init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv8, sleepinnng 30 secs My system has FreeBSD 5.3 installed with default xorg-server-6.7.0_9. I also have Linux ABI compability turned on. My graphics card is GeForce TI4000. The /etc/ttys has the following line: ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure I looked in the Xorg.0.log file but did not spot any error. Any help to chase down this display problem will be greatly appreciated. rain --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page – Try My Yahoo!