From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 28 18:03:54 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 C12FE16A421 for ; Mon, 28 May 2007 18:03:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vittorio@de-martino.it) Received: from smtp4.aruba.it (smtpd.aruba.it [62.149.128.208]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 02AE013C480 for ; Mon, 28 May 2007 18:03:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vittorio@de-martino.it) Received: (qmail 7152 invoked by uid 89); 28 May 2007 18:03:49 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.1.0 ppid: 7082, pid: 7128, t: 0.7984s scanners: clamav: 0.88.4/m:40/d:1722 Received: from unknown (HELO ?83.225.65.165?) (ml-vic@de-martino.it@83.225.65.165) by smtp4.aruba.it with SMTP; 28 May 2007 18:03:48 -0000 From: Vittorio De Martino To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 20:03:47 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <200705281518.08238.vittorio@de-martino.it> <200705281051.04823.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <200705281051.04823.lists@jnielsen.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705282003.47681.vittorio@de-martino.it> X-Spam-Rating: smtp4.aruba.it 1.6.2 0/1000/N 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 18:03:54 -0000 Il Monday 28 May 2007 14:51:04 John Nielsen ha scritto: > 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. > Actually the nvidia.ko mdule was and is loaded hpbsd# kldstat Id Refs Address Size Name 1 24 0xc0400000 5b33d8 kernel .................................. 4 3 0xc0a7e000 1e058 linux.ko 5 1 0xc0a9d000 435c acpi_video.ko 6 3 0xc0aa2000 61ba0 acpi.ko 7 1 0xc0b04000 6d4de0 nvidia.ko 8 1 0xc11d9000 aed4 cpufreq.ko 9 1 0xc11e4000 4a2c acpi_ibm.ko .................................. 15 1 0xc7245000 2000 rtc.ko I was able to eliminate the following error -------------------- (II) LoadModule: "wfb" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libwfb.so dlopen: Shared object "librpcsvc.so.2" not found, required by "libwfb.so" (EE) Failed to load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libwfb.so ------------------ because the required librpcsvc.so.2 has become (and is presente as) librpcsvc.so.3. Therefore I linked ln -s librpcsvc.so.3 librpcsvc.so.2 That's ok now BUT >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> NVIDIA: could not open the device /dev/nvidiactl >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (II) Setting vga for screen 0. (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888 (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration (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. still something incorrect prevents startx to fire X. The problems seems to be /dev/nvidiactl! Please help - Vittorio