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Date:      Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:05:13 -0300
From:      Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez <rnsanchez@wait4.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: x11/nvidia-driver on Sept07 snapshot
Message-ID:  <20070926100513.dfbf3bd8.rnsanchez@wait4.org>
In-Reply-To: <00ec01c7ff85$9604f8f0$5317fb93@KLOBOUCEK>
References:  <00ec01c7ff85$9604f8f0$5317fb93@KLOBOUCEK>

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On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:06:01 +0200
"Petr Holub" <hopet@ics.muni.cz> wrote:

> When attempting to run X, I get:
> 
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): ============= WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING
> ============= (EE) NVIDIA(0): This server has a video driver ABI
> version of 2.0 but this (EE) NVIDIA(0):     driver is designed to work
> with versions before 2.0. (EE) NVIDIA(0):     Please check
> http://www.nvidia.com/ for driver updates or (EE) NVIDIA(0):
> downgrade to an X server with a supported driver ABI. (EE) NVIDIA(0):
> =========================================================== (II)
> Module "ramdac" already built-in NVIDIA: could not open the device
> file /dev/nvidiactl (No such file or directory ).
> (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 ***
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
> 
> 
> I can submit more info on request.

I'm on -stable, but saw that one too.  UPDATING tells you to launch X11
as:

	startx -- -ignoreABI

It really works (I'm on X11).

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Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez                   rnsanchez@wait4.org
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