Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:49:18 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Failed to load module "nv" ... Message-ID: <20070612214918.22f51b58@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <000001c7ad29$caa20a70$6601a8c0@KGISH> References: <000001c7ad29$caa20a70$6601a8c0@KGISH>
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On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:42:19 +0200 "Kiffin Gish" <kiffin.gish@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" > > 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. nv is the open-source driver from xorg, if your xorg.conf entry specifies nv then you've not actually been the using the driver from the nvidia site, which is called nvidia. x11/nvidia-driver is the port of nvidia's binary, the open source version has only got its own port with the modularization of xorg in 7.2.
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