Nvidia on CURRENT...

[Anders Troback]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:56:03 +0200
Tore Lund <toreld at netscape.net> wrote:

> Anders Troback wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:14:38 +0200
> > Tore Lund <toreld at netscape.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> Anders Troback wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:25:05 +0400
> >>> "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >>>> I have it working fine on my current. Have you disabled agp in
> >>>> kernel config?
> >>> No, should I? Running on GENERIC!
> >> It's a little easier to try it out by putting this line into
> >> /boot/device.hints:
> >>
> >> hint.agp.0.disabled="1"
> > 
> > No, no luck!
> > 
> > This is the error from startx:
> > 
> > NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidiactl (No such file
> > or directory).
> > (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 ***
> > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
> > 
> > And yes there is a Nvidia GPU in my system (at least when I'm
> > running 6.2):-)
> 
> Hmmm.  What about dmesg?  Does it report the device nvidia0 or
> anything else with nvidia chips?  And are you running nvidia-settings?
> 
> The port nvidia-xconfig solved some problems for me by modifying my
> xorg.conf.  And I solved a couple of other problems by browsing the
> Nvidia knowledgebase:
> 
> http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php
> 
> (Though, I am running 6.1-RELEASE.)

Dmesg, nothing but pciconf outputs this info:

vgapci0 at pci1:0:0:       class=0x030000 card=0x01cc1028 chip=0x01d810de
rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00 vendor   = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
    class    = display
    subclass = VGA

If I boot into my 6.2-PRERELASE it works...!


\\troback


-- 

============================================
Microsoft is not the answer.
Microsoft is the question.
And 'No' is the answer!
--------------------------------------------
Anders Trobäck
http://www.troback.com