Proprietary NVIDIA driver not working

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Hello,

I can't get the proprietary NVIDIA drivers to work with FreeBSD 10-CURRENT. I'm always getting

Code: 
(EE) May 22 01:42:14 NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize default colormap

and X.Org exits. Xorg.0.log doesn't give any useful hints besides that.

What I've already tried:

1) GENERIC (r250582) instead of custom kernel (r250824): same result.
2) Tried x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa: X.Org gives the error message
Code: 
failed to set mtrr: Operation not supported
Changing machdep.disable_mtrrs didn't help.
3) Compiled x11/nvidia-driver with GCC instead of Clang: same result as with Clang.

After googling a bit, I found a thread in a Russian BSD forum where someone saw the same error in 9.1-BETA, unfortunately without any posted solution.

The kernel modules nvidia and linux are kldload'ed and dbus and hald are running. The graphics card is a GeForce 8800 GTS 512.

Any hints?

Thanks in advance! :)

Thomas



Edit: I fixed it! Compiled x11-servers/xorg-server with GCC instead of Clang and suddenly X.Org starts without problems. :) Looks like x11-servers/xorg-server depends on some GCC feature...
 
Styx said:
I have the same problem but I use the x11/nvidia-driver-304. Both x11-server/xorg-server and the nvidia-driver-304 are compiled WITHOUT_CLANG. But I am still getting this failure:

Code: 
NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize default colormap

How exactly did you solve your problem?
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Hi @Styx,

This is what I did:

cd /usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-server
make USE_GCC=any install clean

That solved my problem. Maybe WITHOUT_CLANG works slightly different to this approach?

Tell me how it went!

Thomas



Edit: Seems like X.Org 7.7 works out-of-the-box with Clang. Just installed it with portmaster without changing the port.
 
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It likely originates here, which means virtually everything is potentially broken on head right now, including the base, because it gets built with -O2 by default. Workaround is to downgrade optimization or as already proposed to use gcc instead of clang.
 
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