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 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 [CMD=""]sed -i'' -e '25d' NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-195.22/src/nv-freebsd.h[/CMD] 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(1) utility, which will write its own xorg.conf for him, or nvidia-settings(1) which has the option to save the correct settings.

 

[Learning]

Then he might as well try nvidia's nvidia-xconfig(1) utility, which will write its own xorg.conf for him, or nvidia-settings(1) 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".