can't make the nvidia driver work

R

Roberth

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

Code: 
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?
 
You need to have:
Code: 
nvidia_load="YES"
in your /boot/loader.conf

You can check if it's loaded with kldstat. To load it now kldload nvidia.
 
Most of the stuff in rc.conf is enable_*. In loader.conf it's mostly *_load ;)
 
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.
 
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