Nvidia doesn't start on cryptic errors

Tue May 29 20:11:04 UTC 2007

On Tue, 29 May 2007, Vittorio De Martino wrote:

> Il Monday 28 May 2007 18:16:30 Garrett Cooper ha scritto:
>> Vittorio De Martino wrote:
>>> Il Monday 28 May 2007 14:51:04 John Nielsen ha scritto:
>>>> On Monday 28 May 2007 11:18:07 Vittorio De Martino wrote:
>>>>> On my newly bought HP pavillion 6366 notebook with freebsd 6.2 - p4 and
>>>>> one of the latest portsnap I have an nvidia go 7400 card, *** fully ***
>>>>> supported by the nvidia driver according to the docs.
>>>>>
>>>>> I followed the minimal configuration by nvidia-xconfig and just taiored
>>>>> the language for the keyboard....BUT
>>>>>   startx fails to load X and in the log file I find I find the below
>>>>> reported errors.
>>>>>
>>>>> Being a beginner I find myself somewhat disorientated by these errors
>>>>> that I couldn't find surfing the net.
>>>>>
>>>>> (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 ***
>>>>
>>>> Not too cryptic. Make sure that the nvidia kernel module is loaded and
>>>> try again. To verify, type "kldstat". If nvidia.ko is not listed, type
>>>> "kldload nvidia". To load it automatically on boot (which is the only
>>>> way for it to load successfully), add a line like this to
>>>> /boot/loader.conf:
>>>>
>>>> nvidia_load="YES"
>>>>
>>>> Then reboot.
>>>
>>> Actually the nvidia.ko mdule was and is loaded
>>> hpbsd# kldstat
>>> Id Refs Address    Size     Name
>>>  1   24 0xc0400000 5b33d8   kernel
>>> ..................................
>>>  4    3 0xc0a7e000 1e058    linux.ko
>>>  5    1 0xc0a9d000 435c     acpi_video.ko
>>>  6    3 0xc0aa2000 61ba0    acpi.ko
>>>  7    1 0xc0b04000 6d4de0   nvidia.ko
>>>  8    1 0xc11d9000 aed4     cpufreq.ko
>>>  9    1 0xc11e4000 4a2c     acpi_ibm.ko
>>> ..................................
>>> 15    1 0xc7245000 2000     rtc.ko
>>>
>>> I was able to eliminate the following error
>>> --------------------
>>> (II) LoadModule: "wfb"
>>> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libwfb.so
>>> dlopen: Shared object "librpcsvc.so.2" not found, required by "libwfb.so"
>>> (EE) Failed to load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libwfb.so
>>> ------------------
>>> because the required librpcsvc.so.2 has become  (and is presente as)
>>> librpcsvc.so.3. Therefore I linked
>>> ln -s librpcsvc.so.3 librpcsvc.so.2
>>>
>>> That's ok now BUT
>>>
>>> NVIDIA: could not open the device /dev/nvidiactl
>>> (II) Setting vga for screen 0.
>>> (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
>>> (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
>>> (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
>>> (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
>>> (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
>>> (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.
>>>
>>> still something incorrect prevents startx to fire X.
>>> The problems seems to be /dev/nvidiactl!
>>>
>>> Please help - Vittorio
>>
>> Add yourself to the video group and chown/mod the /dev node until you
>> have read, write, and executable access.
>>
>> -Garrett
>
> Still doen't work! I mean, to put it in a nutshell:
>
> 1) kldstat shows the nvidia.ko module BUT no /dev/nvidia0 nor /dev/nvidiactl
> is present and this seems to cause the failure of startx
>
> 2) I have the following which seems far less than what I can see surfing the
> net (e.g. something like Idontremember.nvidia.0.%desc, and the likes):
>
> hpbsd # sysctl -a|grep nvidia
>
>       nvidia    84    37K       -       84  16,32,64,128,256,1024,2048
> hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module  1.0-9746  Tue Dec 19
> 13:20:59 PST 2006
> hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x: 0
> hw.nvidia.registry.EnableALiAGP: 0
> hw.nvidia.registry.NvAGP: 3
> hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0
> hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0
> hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1
> hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295
> hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295
> hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode: 0
> hw.nvidia.registry.DevicesConnected: 0
> hw.nvidia.registry.RmLogonRC: 1
> hw.nvidia.registry.DetectPrimaryVga: 1
> hw.nvidia.registry.dwords:
>
> Again HELP....Ciao
> Vittorio

What nVidia driver are you trying to install and does your laptop have an nVidia 7400 Go in it?

-Garrett