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Date:      Fri, 7 Mar 2008 12:44:22 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        TooMany Secrets <toomany@toomany.net>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, Laurent Grangeau <thorzero@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port: nvidia-driver-169.12
Message-ID:  <20080307124422.GA64627@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <e8b5dfd50803070412o158c00b9j8628694694528479@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <1bf0a5b00803070327r45818ecfjde6257486eb92379@mail.gmail.com> <e8b5dfd50803070412o158c00b9j8628694694528479@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 01:12:32PM +0100, TooMany Secrets wrote:
> On 3/7/08, Laurent Grangeau <thorzero@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi there !
> >
> >  I've been using FreeBSD now for 4 months. I've been able to compile
> >  NVidia-drivers without Linux compatibility on FreeBSD 7.0 but when I
> >  generate a xorg.conf file, and when I try this file, it says that the NVidia
> >  GLX module fails to load.
> >  (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X
> >  (EE) NVIDIA(0):     log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X
> >  (EE) NVIDIA(0):     server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX module.
> >  If
> >  (EE) NVIDIA(0):     you continue to encounter problems, Please try
> >  (EE) NVIDIA(0):     reinstalling the NVIDIA driver.
> 
> With fbsd 7, after compile nvidia, you need to reboot your computer.
> Then the nvidia ko run ok.

Make sure you it's in your /boot/loader.conf.  Also, you might find
useful to remove "dri" from your ``Modules'' section in X.org config file.

./danfe



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