Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 11:16:30 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Vittorio De Martino <vittorio@de-martino.it> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nvidia doesn't start on cryptic errors Message-ID: <465B1C7E.1020904@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <200705282003.47681.vittorio@de-martino.it> References: <200705281518.08238.vittorio@de-martino.it> <200705281051.04823.lists@jnielsen.net> <200705282003.47681.vittorio@de-martino.it>
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Vittorio De Martino wrote: > 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 Add yourself to the video group and chown/mod the /dev node until you have read, write, and executable access. -Garrett
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