nvidia driver on FreeBSD 8.0

[Learning]

i install FreeBSD 8.0 on my DELL Inspiron 1420 today
the video card is 8400m GS
when i startx is shows

Failed to determine the amount of available video memory

the xorg.conf is auto created by Xorg -configure

these my files

[Learning]

how to deal with this?

[thuglife]

Hi there,

is there a reason you don't use the nvidia driver from ports?

Consult the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/compiz-fusion/nvidia-setup.html) and if you have any further questions please post again.

If you are on amd64 you will have to download the nvidia drivers manually (to my knowledge).

# fetch ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/FreeBSD-x86_64/195.22/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-195.22.tar.gz
# tar -xf NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-195.22.tar.gz
# cd NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-195.22
# make install
# nvidia-xconfig

[Learning]

yep, i tried, but still not work

#error This driver does not support FreeBSD 8.x/-CURRENT!

[crsd]

That doesn't look like error from 195.22, it mentions 9.X/-CURRENT now. Anyway, when you get correct (latest) driver tarball (mentioned in thuglife's post), untar it and run sed -i'' -e '25d' NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-195.22/src/nv-freebsd.h and continue with install.

[Learning]

i installed nvidia-driver from ports and i got
(==) NVIDIA(0): will be used as the requested mode.
(==) NVIDIA(0):
(II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes:
(II) NVIDIA(0): "nvidia-auto-select"
(II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1440 x 900
(--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (121, 120); computed from "UseEdidDpi" X config
(--) NVIDIA(0): option
(==) NVIDIA(0): Enabling 32-bit ARGB GLX visuals.
(--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
(II) do I need RAC? No, I don't.
(II) resource ranges after preInit:
[0] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
[1] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
[2] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
[3] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
[4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART.
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0xdfff3000, 0x00000870)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0xdfff3000, 0x00000870)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "nvidia-auto-select"
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0xdfff3000, 0x0000aa44)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0xdfff3000, 0x0000aa44)

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting

[DutchDaemon]

Atre you on 32-bit FreeBSD 8.0 right now? Do you have compat5 in the kernel? NVIDIA from ports (32-bit version) needs binary compatibility with FreeBSD 5. If you're on 64-bit FreeBSD, the 195.22 version will work without further ado.

[Learning]

Atre you on 32-bit FreeBSD 8.0 right now? Do you have compat5 in the kernel? NVIDIA from ports (32-bit version) needs binary compatibility with FreeBSD 5. If you're on 64-bit FreeBSD, the 195.22 version will work without further ado.

yep, i386 it is, and compat5 already installed，while i startx it display nothing but black

[DutchDaemon]

Have you tried starting X without xorg.conf?

[adamk]

If he tries without an xorg.conf file, he won't be using the nvidia driver.

[DutchDaemon]

Then he might as well try nvidia's nvidia-xconfig utility, which will write its own xorg.conf for him, or nvidia-settings which has the option to save the correct settings.

[Learning]

Then he might as well try nvidia's nvidia-xconfig utility, which will write its own xorg.conf for him, or nvidia-settings which has the option to save the correct settings.

i tried all that ways, x(

BTW, my hardware list:

Core 2 T5250
4G DDR2
Nvidia 8400m GS
1440x900 LCD

[SirDice]

The xorg.conf you posted has Driver "nv" instead of Driver "nvidia".