From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 28 14:49:55 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 313B116A468 for ; Mon, 28 May 2007 14:49:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1554B13C45B for ; Mon, 28 May 2007 14:49:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from localhost (jn@ns1 [69.55.238.237]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l4SEnoc5077040; Mon, 28 May 2007 10:49:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 10:51:04 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <200705281518.08238.vittorio@de-martino.it> In-Reply-To: <200705281518.08238.vittorio@de-martino.it> X-Face: #X5#Y*q>F:]zT!DegL3z5Xo'^MN[$8k\[4^3rN~wm=s=Uw(sW}R?3b^*f1Wu*.<=?utf-8?q?of=5F4NrS=0A=09P*M/9CpxDo!D6?=)IY1w<9B1jB; tBQf[RU-R<,I)e"$q7N7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705281051.04823.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Vittorio De Martino Subject: Re: Nvidia doesn't start on cryptic errors 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: Mon, 28 May 2007 14:49:55 -0000 On Monday 28 May 2007 11:18:07 Vittorio De Martino wrote: > On my newly bought HP pavillion 6366 notebook with freebsd 6.2 - p4 and one > of the latest portsnap I have an nvidia go 7400 card, *** fully *** > supported by the nvidia driver according to the docs. > > I followed the minimal configuration by nvidia-xconfig and just taiored the > language for the keyboard....BUT > startx fails to load X and in the log file I find I find the below > reported errors. > > Being a beginner I find myself somewhat disorientated by these errors that > I couldn't find surfing the net. > (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! Please > ensure (EE) NVIDIA(0): that there is a supported NVIDIA GPU in this > system, and (EE) NVIDIA(0): that the NVIDIA device files have been > created properly. (EE) NVIDIA(0): Please consult the NVIDIA README for > details. > (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** Not too cryptic. Make sure that the nvidia kernel module is loaded and try again. To verify, type "kldstat". If nvidia.ko is not listed, type "kldload nvidia". To load it automatically on boot (which is the only way for it to load successfully), add a line like this to /boot/loader.conf: nvidia_load="YES" Then reboot. JN