Xorg and Nvidia problems

M

manblue

I am on day two of my first attempt at installing FreeBSD. I am stuck at the part of the setup where I generate a working xorg.conf file.

I ran
Code: 
Xorg -configure
and
Code: 
cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

I got the blank screen and realized I hadn't install the nvidia drivers.
I went to
Code: 
/usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver
and did make install and got this error
Code: 
"/usr/share/mk/bsd.kmod.mk", line 12: "cant find kernel source tree"

I have added
Code: 
nvidia_load="YES"
to /boot/loader.conf based on a BSD document for Compiz fusion.

How do I go about installing nvidia so that it does find the tree? I can navigate to and view the make file, but not the skill to manipulate it yet.



Thank you
 
Thanks for that, but now theres a new error.
Code: 
===> Installing for nvidia-driver-256.53
===> nvidia-driver-256.53 depends on file: /compat/linux/etc/fedora-release - not found
===> Verifying install for /compat/linux/etc/fedora-release in /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-f10
===> linux_base-f10-10_3 linuxulator is not (kld)loaded.
***Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-f10
*** Error code 1

Stop in usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver.
***Error code 1
 
Thanks SirDice!
That allowed the driver to finally be installed. Do I put
Code: 
linux="YES"
in the boot loader?

Now I still have to examine the Xorg.0.log to find out why I still can't startx. I know I can email from the terminal, but what program in BSD can I use? I would like to email the file to mayself and analyze it and post it here instead of typing it in from the notebook after I boot into another OS. There is still an issue with NVIDIA and a bunch of (EE)s and (WW)s are in there.

thanks
 
Solved

I keep getting brand new errors. I haven't gone to far into the install to just start over.

Thanks for the help
 
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