nvidia.ko

[Christoph P. Kukulies]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:47:56AM -0400, Kenneth Culver wrote:
> Quoting "C. Kukulies" <kuku at www.kukulies.org>:
> 
> > What is the recommended way to use the nvidia driver under FreeBSD-current?
> > WITH_FREEBSD_AGP or not? (Dell Inspiron 8000 w/ Geforce2 Go)
> >
> > I have agb_load="YES"

agp_load of course.

> > nvidia_load="YES"
> >
> > in /boot/loader.conf
> >
> > At present I get a cold boot when I startx. Screen becomes dark and after
> > a couple of seconds I get the DELL Logo, rebooting.
> >
> > I want to use OpenGL so using the XFree86 driver (nv) is not an alternative.
> >
> > --
> 
> In my experience the nvidia agp driver is faster, but also crashes more. If all
> you did was the above, you are still using the nvidia driver. You have to
> recompile the nvidia driver with the WITH_FREEBSD_AGP to use the agp driver
> that comes with FreeBSD. When I used the FreeBSD AGP driver, I had no stability
> problems.

I removed the agp_load line. Now I'm getting this when starting X:
...
(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Mon Oct 20 16:47:12 2003
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config"
(EE) Failed to load module "glx" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) No drivers available.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages.
This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
Please report problems to xfree86 at xfree86.org.

X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
kukuboo2k# kldstat
Id Refs Address    Size     Name
 1   12 0xc0400000 6138e8   kernel
 2    2 0xc0a14000 1d484    linux.ko
 3    1 0xc0a32000 1af1dc   nvidia.ko
 4    1 0xc0be2000 4bd1c    acpi.ko
 5    1 0xc3305000 b000     ntfs.ko
 6    1 0xc3375000 8000     snd_maestro3.ko
 7    1 0xc337d000 19000    snd_pcm.ko

Any ideas what could be wrong?


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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku_at_physik.rwth-aachen.de