On Monday 12 March 2007 20:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm actually having the same problem, but after I took out device agp out > of my kernel. And I still cannot start x with nvidia driver. > > It complains that /dev/nvidiactl couldn't be opened. And then it says it > failed to load the kernel module.
It seems that the graphics card is not detected. Does 'pciconf -l | grep nvidia' show anything? What model is it? If it is an older card, you may need the older version of the NVIDIA driver. > > sysctl -a | grep nvidia > hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 1.0-9746 Tue Dec 19 > 13:20:59 PST 2006 > hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x: 0 > hw.nvidia.registry.EnableALiAGP: 0 > hw.nvidia.registry.NvAGP: 1 > hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0 > hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0 > hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1 > hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295 > hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295 > hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode: 0 > hw.nvidia.registry.DevicesConnected: 0 > hw.nvidia.registry.RmLogonRC: 1 > hw.nvidia.registry.DetectPrimaryVga: 1 > hw.nvidia.registry.dwords: For comparison, here is my output. Note that there are card specific entries. # sysctl -a | grep nvidia nvidia 603 1293K - 38844 16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096 nvidia0: <GeForce 7600 GS> port 0xbc00-0xbc7f mem 0xfd000000-0xfdffffff,0xc0000000-0xcfffffff,0xfc000000-0xfcffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci3 nvidia0: [GIANT-LOCKED] hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 1.0-9746 Tue Dec 19 13:20:59 PST 2006 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableALiAGP: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.NvAGP: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.DevicesConnected: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.RmLogonRC: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.DetectPrimaryVga: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.dwords: hw.nvidia.cards.0.model: GeForce 7600 GS hw.nvidia.cards.0.irq: 16 hw.nvidia.cards.0.vbios: 05.73.22.16.02 hw.nvidia.cards.0.type: PCI-E dev.nvidia.0.%desc: GeForce 7600 GS dev.nvidia.0.%driver: nvidia dev.nvidia.0.%location: slot=0 function=0 dev.nvidia.0.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x10de device=0x0392 subvendor=0x3842 subdevice=0xc547 class=0x030000 dev.nvidia.0.%parent: pci3 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"