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Old November 28th, 2011, 00:18
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Hello and thanks for looking. I've just installed FreeBSD 8.2. But I am lost as how to setup nvidia-driver. It's started by kldload and shows with kldstat as nvidia.ko. Linux emulator is also showing as linux.ko.

Now my next step was to try to get them to auto start so far its not doing this. And I don't know if I am even heading in the right direction.
I am not good with command line, I can do what I see others say to do, but as far as knowing why or the next step I am lost. I have been reading posts and have both KDE4 and Gnome up and on line. But that's about it. No sound, no nvidia, no flashplayer.

Again thanks if anyone can help me get this OS working.
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Did you install the driver through ports or did you just download the driver from the nVidia website?

You likely need to add:

Code:
Driver "nvidia"
to the "Device" section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.


Mine looks like this after using the driver from ports:
Code:
Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
        BoardName   "GF104 [GeForce GTX 460]"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
This page tells you how to get flash working:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...-browsers.html

This page tells you how to get your sound working:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...und-setup.html
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Old November 28th, 2011, 07:59
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I've just installed FreeBSD 8.2. But I am lost as how to setup nvidia-driver. It's started by kldload and shows with kldstat as nvidia.ko. Linux emulator is also showing as linux.ko.

Now my next step was to try to get them to auto start so far its not doing this. And I don't know if I am even heading in the right direction.
Add to /boot/loader.conf:
Code:
nvidia_load="YES"
See loader.conf(5).
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Did you install the driver through ports or did you just download the driver from the nVidia website?

You likely need to add:

Code:
Driver "nvidia"
to the "Device" section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.


Mine looks like this after using the driver from ports:
Code:
Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
        BoardName   "GF104 [GeForce GTX 460]"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
This page tells you how to get flash working:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...-browsers.html

This page tells you how to get your sound working:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...und-setup.html
I used ports
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Old December 4th, 2011, 01:37
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Installing x11/nvidia-xconfig and x11/nvidia-settings should be of some help to you, I would imagine. That is if you haven't already. Pretty much makes it cake.

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