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Date:      Wed, 3 Jan 2018 07:51:50 -0600
From:      Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
To:        Kovacs Zoltan <kovacsz2013@yahoo.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: No devices detected for NVIDIA card.
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On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 2:49 AM, Kovacs Zoltan <kovacsz2013@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Put this in /boot/loader.conf:
>
> nvidia-modeset_load="YES"
>
> Remove nvidia related entries from /etc/rc.conf
>
> You may need linux_load="YES" in loader as well if applicable.
>
> Reboot after entries are made.
>
> /usr/local/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README
>
> --
> Adam
>
> I have
>
> linux_load="YES"
>
> nvidia-modeset_load="YES"
>
> in /boot/loader.conf
>
> and I deleted the line kld_list="nvidia-modeset" from /etc/rc.conf, i.e.
> no nvidia specific settings are in /etc/rc.conf now. However, xorg still
> generates the error message "No devices found".
>
> I have checked the information on such errors generated by xorg in
> /usr/local/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README  but I could not find anything.
>
> Zoltan
>

You may be able to work around the issue by statically specifying the bus
id of nvidia in xorg conf:

> You can work around this problem by specifying the bus ID of the device
you wish to use. For more details, please search the xorg.conf manual page
for "BusID".

-- 
Adam



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