From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 4 07:29:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC18616A4CE for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 07:29:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7C18B43D4C for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 07:29:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from teilhk@softhome.net) Received: (qmail 17289 invoked by uid 417); 4 Apr 2004 14:22:57 -0000 Received: from charleston-.softhome.net (HELO softhome.net) (172.16.2.12) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 4 Apr 2004 14:22:57 -0000 Received: from ARLETTE ([201.129.245.183]) (AUTH: LOGIN teilhk@softhome.net) by softhome.net with esmtp; Sun, 04 Apr 2004 08:22:56 -0600 Message-ID: <00f501c41a50$52311230$210110ac@ARLETTE> From: "Teilhard Knight" To: "FreeBSD" , "Kent Stewart" References: <00ca01c41a4b$a8e81d30$210110ac@ARLETTE> <200404040657.33187.kstewart@owt.com> Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 08:22:54 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: Re: Can't get KDE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 14:29:39 -0000 > On Sunday 04 April 2004 06:49 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > I have been doing my research, reading all pieces of information > > which can help me. My problem is that I installed the NVIDIA driver > > for my Leadtek WinFast GeForce3 with NVIDIA chipset. When I command > > the machine "startx", I get the error message: "NVIDIA: chipset > > "GeForce3 in device section "card0" isn't valid for this driver". > > Now, I cannot even revert to the old "nv" driver because I get > > another error. I have found the line "start nvidia" in an archive, > > God knows where else there are configured files in my system. I'll > > appreciate any help. > > > > > > If you have locate turned on, do a "locate XF86Config". There may be > old versions lying around. X expects it in serveral places, I have mine > in > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config Thank you for your answer. I have XF86Config in /etc/X11. I have fiddled with the configuration file to no avail. First thing I did was to change the driver "nvidia" for the one loaded by default ("nv"). I also set up the modules as the file README. Linux (in the NVIDIA driver package) instructs, and I haven't been successful. FAQ in the package do not address the problem, let alone the Handbook. Teilhard.