How to determine the correct graphics card driver
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2022 09:22:18 UTC
Hello! After installing FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE amd64 on an old machine with Intel Pentium E5300, I would like to properly configure the graphics card. Currently the display has a 640x480 resolution and I'm struggling to find the right graphics driver. `pciconf -lv' shows: vgapci0@pci0:0:16:0: class=0x030000 rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x10de device=0x07e1 subvendor=0x1734 subdevice=0x115b vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' device = 'C73 [GeForce 7100 / nForce 630i]' class = display subclass = VGA So I guessed that it's an NVIDIA card. According to the link in Section 2.1 of <https://docs.freebsd.org/doc/7.3-RELEASE/usr/share/doc/en/articles/compiz-fusion/nvidia-setup.html> (which is https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/legacy-gpu/) such a device is supported by the `304.xx' driver. So, I installed the package nvidia-driver-304-304.137_9 and added `kldlist="nvidia"' to /etc/rc.conf as instructed. The driver installs in fact `/boot/modules/nvidia.ko'. However, this had no success. The resolution is still 640x480. Some relevant lines in the dmesg(8) possibly are: vtvga0: <VT VGA driver> vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> mem 0xfd000000-0xfdffffff,0xe0000000-0xefffffff,0xfc000000-0xfcffffff irq 22 at device 16.0 on pci0 vgapci0: Boot video device ... linker_load_file: /boot/kernel/atanvidia.ko - unsupported file type nvidia0: <GeForce 7100 / nForce 630i> on vgapci0 vgapci0: child nvidia0 requested pci_enable_io Here are the full outputs - of dmesg(8): http://rockyhotas.freeshell.org/dmesg1 - of `pciconf -lv': http://rockyhotas.freeshell.org/pciconf1 - of dmidecode(8): http://rockyhotas.freeshell.org/dmidecode1 First, is this the correct driver? And, if so, what is possibly wrong? Rocky