I have installed nvidia-driver, nvidia-xconfig and nvidia-settings following the advice on in this thread:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=28851
Installation worked:
nvidia-xconfig was able to generate an xorg.conf. I don't know if the small amount of complaining it gave means anything:
X fails to start giving:
I hope there is a suggestion out there. Thanks.
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=28851
Installation worked:
Code:
$ pkg_info | grep nvidia
nvidia-driver-290.10 NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL ren
nvidia-settings-290.10 Display Control Panel for X NVidia driver
nvidia-xconfig-290.10 Tool to manipulate X configuration files for the NVidia dri
nvidia-xconfig was able to generate an xorg.conf. I don't know if the small amount of complaining it gave means anything:
Code:
# nvidia-xconfig
WARNING: Unable to locate/open X configuration file.
ps: Process environment requires procfs(5)
New X configuration file written to '/etc/X11/xorg.con
X fails to start giving:
Code:
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Jan 15 14:24:45 2012
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidiactl (No such file or
directory
).
(EE) Jan 15 14:24:47 NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel
module. P
lease see the
(EE) Jan 15 14:24:47 NVIDIA(0): system's kernel log for additional
error mes
sages and
(EE) Jan 15 14:24:47 NVIDIA(0): consult the NVIDIA README for
details.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
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
informati
on.
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
xinit: server error
I hope there is a suggestion out there. Thanks.