Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:07:00 -0400 From: Sean <rsh.lists@comcast.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: nvidia drivers Message-ID: <432A0CA4.5030906@comcast.net>
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I am using a test system and have been try to get the nvidia drivers working. I am running freebsd 5.3 release, nvidia ultra 6800 256mb, and tried installing the drivers using the port. Went through all the info I can find and tried various things and no luck. On a fresh install of 5.3, I installed te nvidia driver using the port and after startx, (with no .xinitrc), it started fine. When I exited this test there were two lines about this kernel (generic) and version of FreeBSD not being able to support agp. I cvs'd up and rebuilt all ports. Kernel still running generic install and now have the below error. dmesg does show the nvidia0: <geforce 6800 Ultra> with various info after. dmesg also show on the next line nvidia0: [giant-locked] The final line of dmesg shows 'interrupt storm detected on "irq16: nvidia0:; throttling interrupt source' Doing a startx, there is no .xinitrc in place, it fails. One line shows 'nvidia: could not open the device file /dev/nvidiactl (unknown error: 999). The some lines about failing to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module, and check to see if there is a supported GPU in the system. Also a line about Screen(s) found, but none have usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found. Checking the Xorg log it even states a NVIDIA GPU is found. The only thing that catches my attention is that it states (II) UnloadableModule "nvidia". Anyone have success getting the nidia driver to run? Thanks Seanhome | help
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