Xorg autoconfigure does not detect nvidia-driver

[truk]

I installed X and the Nvidia-driver from the ports collection. I took all the defaults during installation. The startx command starts the X windows systems, but it never finds the Nvidia-driver. Instead, it uses the old nv in 800x600 mode. Any suggestions?

 

[SirDice]

Just create a basic xorg.conf and set the driver to nvidia.

 

[segfault]

I used this for help last night actually:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3038

in short:
-Install nvidia-driver, nvidia-settings and nvidia-xconfig.
-kldload nvidia
-Add nvidia_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf
-run nvidia-xconfig
-Replace "nv" in the resulting /etc/X11/xorg.conf file with "nvidia"


That did it for me.

 

[truk]

Problem solved

Thanks! It was the nvidia-xconfig step that I forgot.