Re: Nvidia Driver

From: nawcom (nawcom_at_nawcom.no-ip.com)
Date: 07/15/05

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    Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:19:08 -0400
To: Adam Stroud <adam.stroud@gmail.com>

    well hey stuff like this happenes - i had to handle an issues like this.
    let us know whats stopping it, will be willing to help.
    good luck,
    Ben

    Adam Stroud wrote:

    >Well,
    >
    >That poses a problem. During the upgrade (via portupgrade) my machine
    >rebooted on it's own and now won't boot. I think I am getting a
    >kernel error that I was just about to post in another email to the
    >questions list. I will copy you on that post.
    >
    >A
    >
    >On 7/15/05, nawcom <nawcom@nawcom.no-ip.com> wrote:
    >
    >
    >>if you can, go ahead and print out your xorg.conf settings and the log
    >>file for it. I am suspicous that theres something up with that.
    >>
    >>Ben
    >>
    >>Ian Moore wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >>>On Friday 15 July 2005 12:37, Adam Stroud wrote:
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>>All:
    >>>>
    >>>>I am having a problem getting my nvidia video card to work since I
    >>>>portupgraded to the latest nvidia driver in the port. I had
    >>>>everything working find using many of the old verions. Then I
    >>>>upgraded to the latest version and now when I attempt tp startx, I
    >>>>get:
    >>>>
    >>>>X Window System Version 6.8.2
    >>>>
    >>>>Release Date: 9 February 2005
    >>>>
    >>>>X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2
    >>>>
    >>>>Build Operating System: FreeBSD 5.4 i386 [ELF]
    >>>>
    >>>>Current Operating System: FreeBSD osirus.stronet.dyndns.org 5.4-STABLE
    >>>>FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Fri Jun 24 23:25:37 EDT 2005
    >>>>adam@osirus.stronet.dyndns.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/APS_KERN i386
    >>>>
    >>>>Build Date: 24 June 2005
    >>>>
    >>>> Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
    >>>>
    >>>> to make sure that you have the latest version.
    >>>>
    >>>>Module Loader present
    >>>>
    >>>>Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
    >>>>
    >>>> (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
    >>>>
    >>>> (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
    >>>>
    >>>>(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Jul 14 22:50:09 2005
    >>>>
    >>>>(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
    >>>>
    >>>>(EE) Failed to load module "speedo" (module does not exist, 0)
    >>>>
    >>>>(EE) No devices detected.
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>Fatal server error:
    >>>>
    >>>>no screens found
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
    >>>>
    >>>> at http://wiki.X.Org
    >>>>
    >>>>for help.
    >>>>
    >>>>Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional
    >>>>information.
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>adam@osirus:/boot>exit
    >>>>
    >>>>exit
    >>>>
    >>>>I looked and /var/log/messages, and FreeBSD sees the video card and I
    >>>>verified that the module is loaded with kldinfo. As I said,
    >>>>everything worked fine with the older version of the port. Does
    >>>>anyone have any ideas?
    >>>>
    >>>>Thanks
    >>>>A
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>What card do you have - nvidia have dropped support for older chipsets - take
    >>>a look at /usr/ports/UPDATING for details.
    >>>That might be the cause of your problem.
    >>>
    >>>Cheers,
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
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