can't make the nvidia driver work

[Roberth]

Hello, when I am starting the xserver, the nvidia driver won't load:

NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidiactl (No such file or directory).

I have booted the system with enable_nvidia="YES". I have also manually upgraded the nvidia driver to 188.22 which is the only one who support my graphics card.

What can be the issue?

[SirDice]

You need to have:

nvidia_load="YES"

in your /boot/loader.conf

You can check if it's loaded with kldstat. To load it now kldload nvidia.

[Roberth]

Oh, I though it was nvidia_enable. Thanks.

[SirDice]

Most of the stuff in rc.conf is enable_*. In loader.conf it's mostly *_load ;)

[Carpetsmoker]

If you forget, you can always take a look at the defaults:
/etc/defaults/rc.conf
/boot/defaults/loader.conf

But whatever you do, do *not* edit these files.