Failed to load module "nv" ...

[youshi10 at u.washington.edu]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:42:19 +0200
> "Kiffin Gish" <kiffin.gish at planet.nl> wrote:
>
>> The other day I upgraded to xorg 7.2 but when I run startx I get the
>> following error message:
>>
>> --> Failed to load module "nv"
>>
> Hi Kiffin.
>
> Change your /etc/X11/xorg.conf archive. the line now is:
>
>        Driver      "nv"
>
> must be:
>
>        Driver      "nvidia"
>
> Hope this help.
>
> Regards.
>
> Jose.
>
>> Rather that using the nvidia driver from the ports I had earlier downloaded
>> the official freebsd driver from the nvidia site, but had installed it into
>> the old xorg environment under /usr/X11R6.
>>
>> Do I need to reinstall it but this time in the new environment?
>>
>> Is that then under /usr/X11R6?
>>
>> How do I tell the make script to point it there, export X11BASE?
>>
>> Or should I remove this driver altogether and go with the official ports
>> one?
>>
>> Thanks a lot in advance for all your help.
>>
>> --
>> Kiffin Rex Gish
>> Gouda, The Netherlands
>>
>
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** x11-drivers/nvidia-driver only works with i386 at this time.

-Garrett