Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 16:54:36 +0200 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@kukulies.org> To: Kenneth Culver <culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nvidia.ko Message-ID: <20031020145435.GA7211@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <1066661276.2ai2gfhl2000@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> References: <200310201051.h9KApUa6006302@www.kukulies.org> <1066661276.2ai2gfhl2000@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz>
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On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:47:56AM -0400, Kenneth Culver wrote: > Quoting "C. Kukulies" <kuku@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@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? -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku_at_physik.rwth-aachen.de
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