Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 19:01:39 -0500 From: "Ralph M. Los" <Ralph@boundariez.com> To: <Freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: SOLVED: RE: nVidia drivers on FreeBSD 5.2.1 (Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop) Message-ID: <B06CC0370BBC0F4EA588FD6952A9392502293A@tenacious.boundariez.com>
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OK - I resolve to the fact that I just can't read error messages. I commented out the chipset portion...and voila...everything works like a CHARM. Sorry to waste everyone's time with a completely stupid mistake. -----Original Message----- From: Ralph M. Los=20 Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 6:48 PM To: Freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Frank Knobbe Subject: RE: nVidia drivers on FreeBSD 5.2.1 (Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop) Tried /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver and doing make install...worked great and gave some instructions about doing a "make setup" which doesn't exist. After that....still getting this when I try to get X running. I've included my XF86Config snip at the bottom just for giggles. <ERROR SNIP> (WW) NVIDIA: Chipset "GeForce2 Go" in Device section "NVIDIA GeForce 2" isn't valid for this driver. (EE) No devices detected Fatal server error: No screens found </ERROR SNIP> <My XF86Config file snip> Section "Device" Identifier "NVIDIA GeForce 2" VendorName "NVIDIA" BoardName "GeForce2 Go" Driver "nvidia" BoardName "GeForce2 Go" ChipSet "GeForce2 Go" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "NVIDIA GeForce 2" Monitor "Monitor0" ... ... EndSection </My XF86Config file snip> ARG!!!! Ralph _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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