Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:54:03 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: af300wsm@gmail.com Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Having issues with the nvidia driver on my box Message-ID: <443ag97gx0.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <001636458c861e94e4045ef719cf@google.com> (af300wsm@gmail.com's message of "Fri\, 26 Dec 2008 18\:14\:38 %2B0000") References: <001636458c861e94e4045ef719cf@google.com>
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af300wsm@gmail.com writes: > For several reasons, one of which was to use the nvidia driver for my > board, I switched from amd64 to i386. So, I installed the driver and > although things are working I'm getting this on console 0: > > NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the amd CPU and OS kernel > NVRM: kernel upgrade recommended Do you have AGP in the kernel? > So, when I installed the nvidia driver I said to enable AGP. (Figuring > only that this is an AGP board, why not?) If you say 'no' to that, I think it will use its own AGP driver instead of the native one. > ps in case it matters, my board is rather "old." I purchased it 4 > years ago and as I'm not a gamer, it suffices quite nicely. Here's > the driver I had to install for support of this chip: > > nvidia-driver-96.43.07 NVidia graphics card binary drivers for > hardware OpenGL ren What do you use NVidia's driver for? If find that the open-source nv driver works just fine for most things (I, too, do not play games on my desktop computer). Until I installed Google Earth, the proprietary driver was completely unnecessary for me. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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