Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
Norbert Papke wrote: On Monday 12 March 2007 20:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm actually having the same problem, but after I took out device agp out of my kernel. And I still cannot start x with nvidia driver. It complains that /dev/nvidiactl couldn't be opened. And then it says it failed to load the kernel module. It seems that the graphics card is not detected. Does 'pciconf -l | grep nvidia' show anything? What model is it? If it is an older card, you may need the older version of the NVIDIA driver. sysctl -a | grep nvidia hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 1.0-9746 Tue Dec 19 13:20:59 PST 2006 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableALiAGP: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.NvAGP: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.DevicesConnected: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.RmLogonRC: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.DetectPrimaryVga: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.dwords: For comparison, here is my output. Note that there are card specific entries. # sysctl -a | grep nvidia nvidia 603 1293K -38844 16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096 nvidia0: GeForce 7600 GS port 0xbc00-0xbc7f mem 0xfd00-0xfdff,0xc000-0xcfff,0xfc00-0xfcff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci3 nvidia0: [GIANT-LOCKED] hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 1.0-9746 Tue Dec 19 13:20:59 PST 2006 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableALiAGP: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.NvAGP: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.DevicesConnected: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.RmLogonRC: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.DetectPrimaryVga: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.dwords: hw.nvidia.cards.0.model: GeForce 7600 GS hw.nvidia.cards.0.irq: 16 hw.nvidia.cards.0.vbios: 05.73.22.16.02 hw.nvidia.cards.0.type: PCI-E dev.nvidia.0.%desc: GeForce 7600 GS dev.nvidia.0.%driver: nvidia dev.nvidia.0.%location: slot=0 function=0 dev.nvidia.0.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x10de device=0x0392 subvendor=0x3842 subdevice=0xc547 class=0x03 dev.nvidia.0.%parent: pci3 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It seems the driver is attached: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x03 card=0x chip=0x00f910de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 its a 6800 GT. From BFG. I am on CURRENT. And xorg 6.9.0 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
Sean Bryant wrote: Norbert Papke wrote: On Monday 12 March 2007 20:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm actually having the same problem, but after I took out device agp out of my kernel. And I still cannot start x with nvidia driver. It complains that /dev/nvidiactl couldn't be opened. And then it says it failed to load the kernel module. It seems that the graphics card is not detected. Does 'pciconf -l | grep nvidia' show anything? What model is it? If it is an older card, you may need the older version of the NVIDIA driver. sysctl -a | grep nvidia hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 1.0-9746 Tue Dec 19 13:20:59 PST 2006 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableALiAGP: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.NvAGP: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.DevicesConnected: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.RmLogonRC: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.DetectPrimaryVga: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.dwords: For comparison, here is my output. Note that there are card specific entries. # sysctl -a | grep nvidia nvidia 603 1293K -38844 16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096 nvidia0: GeForce 7600 GS port 0xbc00-0xbc7f mem 0xfd00-0xfdff,0xc000-0xcfff,0xfc00-0xfcff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci3 nvidia0: [GIANT-LOCKED] hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 1.0-9746 Tue Dec 19 13:20:59 PST 2006 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableALiAGP: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.NvAGP: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.DevicesConnected: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.RmLogonRC: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.DetectPrimaryVga: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.dwords: hw.nvidia.cards.0.model: GeForce 7600 GS hw.nvidia.cards.0.irq: 16 hw.nvidia.cards.0.vbios: 05.73.22.16.02 hw.nvidia.cards.0.type: PCI-E dev.nvidia.0.%desc: GeForce 7600 GS dev.nvidia.0.%driver: nvidia dev.nvidia.0.%location: slot=0 function=0 dev.nvidia.0.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x10de device=0x0392 subvendor=0x3842 subdevice=0xc547 class=0x03 dev.nvidia.0.%parent: pci3 It seems the driver is attached: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x03 card=0x chip=0x00f910de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 its a 6800 GT. From BFG. I am on CURRENT. And xorg 6.9.0 Driver section from Xorg? Also, this could be an issue with some changes to the kernel interfaces for AGP / PCI-express, video, ABI, etc.. -CURRENT can be problematic sometimes and something may have gotten broken after an update. You may want to take this question up on the -current@ list though. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 21:41, Sean Bryant wrote: It seems the driver is attached: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x03 card=0x chip=0x00f910de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 its a 6800 GT. In an earlier post you mentioned that there were problems with /dev/nvidiactl and the kernel module. Just to confirm, * Does /dev/nvidiactl exist at all? * Do you have /dev/nvidia0? * Does kldstat show nvidia.ko at all? * What error do you get when you manually load the nvidia kernel module kldload nvidia? Cheers, -- Norbert. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
Tore Lund wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Slothouber wrote: What version of FreeBSD are you currently running. Sorry for pressing the point, but it seems you have not yet told us which version of FreeBSD you are running. /Darn this looks pretty complicated :-P In that case, it may be simpler to just back up a few directories and install the latest version from scratch. Hello all. I am afraid I have to throw in the towel. I tried updating FreeBSD 6.2 to stable and ran into several problems. After a weeks worth of fiddling to get my Nvidia drivers working I decided it's not worth it to invest more time. I am heading back to Gentoo Linux. Thanks all, your help has been really appreciated :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
Martin Tournoij wrote: Armed Assault..? Are you trying to run armed assault in wine? if so, then remember that wine support for FreeBSD is horrible at best... Anyway, I set hint.agp.0.disabled=1 and now hw.nvidia.agp.status.status is set to enabled (it was disabled before) glxgears results are the same, ~2300 FPS. In my experience, games on FreeBSD are always slow, my hardware isn't very fast (900MHz, 384MB RAM,Geforce FX5200) but on windows 2000 I'm able to play even fairly recent games (Such as the punisher, civ4). On FreeBSD, anything with more graphics than rogue will be anything from slow to unplayable, even though FreeBSD outperforms windows in almost every other way... Conclusion: Use windows for games, FreeBSD for serious stuff ... I run Armed Assault in Windows it looks absolutely gorgeous. Btw the punisher is an excellent game, first one I played from start to finish since a long time. My gaming rig relatively fast: AMD 4000+ 1024 Ram Videocard XFX 7800 GS166256-bitGDDR3/256MB440MHz 1300MHz Sound Audigy 2 The thing is I notice it also in normal usage. Dragging a window around the screen sometime makes the system stutter. That when I noticed in the first place that things were wrong. I can perfectly live without games in FreeBSD but not with an X server that feels slow and is lagging :-( . For example if I draw circles with a window in Gentoo nothing happens but in FreeBSD my desktop freezes for a moment. * * ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
In my experience, games on FreeBSD are always slow, my hardware isn't very fast (900MHz, 384MB RAM,Geforce FX5200) but on windows 2000 I'm able to play even fairly recent games (Such as the punisher, civ4). On FreeBSD, anything with more graphics than rogue will be anything from slow to unplayable, even though FreeBSD outperforms windows in almost every other way... Conclusion: Use windows for games, FreeBSD for serious stuff ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have to disagree. Been playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein[: Enemy Territory] and NeverWinter Nights 1 for years - I surely wouldn't say they're anything from slow to unplayable: NWN runs fine at max resolution, and I have constant 142FPS (they're capped @ 142) on ET, at 1280x1024. Hugo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
Hugo Silva wrote: I have to disagree. Been playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein[: Enemy Territory] and NeverWinter Nights 1 for years - I surely wouldn't say they're anything from slow to unplayable: NWN runs fine at max resolution, and I have constant 142FPS (they're capped @ 142) on ET, at 1280x1024. Hugo That is good news :D. I think the problem is not with 3d acceleration but with AGP. I now get this error message at boot: login: NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the AMD CPU and OS kernel NVRM: kernel upgrade recommended. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
In case you haven't noticed I am a total FreeBSD n00b ;). How can I solve this error message? Thanks in advance!: Error message login: NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the AMD CPU and OS kernel NVRM: kernel upgrade recommended. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
Op dinsdag 13 maart 2007 14:56, schreef [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hugo Silva wrote: I have to disagree. Been playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein[: Enemy Territory] and NeverWinter Nights 1 for years - I surely wouldn't say they're anything from slow to unplayable: NWN runs fine at max resolution, and I have constant 142FPS (they're capped @ 142) on ET, at 1280x1024. Hugo My experience exactly; been playing Quake3 a while at framerates over 350 (1024x768). In fact, I have created a robot simulation / visualisation which runs faster on FreeBSD than on Windows. OpenGL is just as fast on FreeBSD as it is on Windows, when set up properly. That is good news :D. I think the problem is not with 3d acceleration but with AGP. I now get this error message at boot: login: NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the AMD CPU and OS kernel NVRM: kernel upgrade recommended. You really need to delete 'device AGP' from your kernel config and rebuild your kernel. When everything is working OK, the hw.nvidia sysctl will look like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ sysctl hw.nvidia hw.nvidia.agp.card.rates: 8x 4x hw.nvidia.agp.card.fw: supported hw.nvidia.agp.card.sba: supported hw.nvidia.agp.card.registers: 0xff000e1b:0x1f000302 hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: enabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: nvidia hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: 8x hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: disabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: enabled [ ... ] hw.nvidia.cards.0.model: GeForce 7600 GT hw.nvidia.cards.0.irq: 16 hw.nvidia.cards.0.vbios: 05.73.22.25.70 hw.nvidia.cards.0.type: AGP Regards, Pieter de Goeje ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
Pieter de Goeje wrote: You really need to delete 'device AGP' from your kernel config and rebuild your kernel. When everything is working OK, the hw.nvidia sysctl will look like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ sysctl hw.nvidia hw.nvidia.agp.card.rates: 8x 4x hw.nvidia.agp.card.fw: supported hw.nvidia.agp.card.sba: supported hw.nvidia.agp.card.registers: 0xff000e1b:0x1f000302 hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: enabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: nvidia hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: 8x hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: disabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: enabled [ ... ] hw.nvidia.cards.0.model: GeForce 7600 GT hw.nvidia.cards.0.irq: 16 hw.nvidia.cards.0.vbios: 05.73.22.25.70 hw.nvidia.cards.0.type: AGP Regards, Pieter de Goeje Do you have a link where I can more (newbie friendly) information on how to do this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
Op dinsdag 13 maart 2007 16:20, schreef [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Do you have a link where I can more (newbie friendly) information on how to do this? Look here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html or the dutch version: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/nl_NL.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html Basically it comes down to this: # cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf # cp GENERIC MYKERNEL edit MYKERNEL, delete 'device agp' or you could: grep -v agp GENERIC MYKERNEL # cd /usr/src # make kernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL # reboot Regards, Pieter de Goeje ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In case you haven't noticed I am a total FreeBSD n00b ;). How can I solve this error message? Thanks in advance!: Error message login: NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the AMD CPU and OS kernel NVRM: kernel upgrade recommended. Unless I am misunderstanding, you can't. See http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=52388 messages #4 and #6. Changes are required to the FreeBSD kernel as well as to the NVidia driver. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-June/016995.html I have no idea what effect this has on 3D acceleration of any kind; I only use the driver because the nv driver available when I got the card locked up. Newer Nvidia drivers do as well (http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=73644) For reference, with a GT6600 and an older nvidia driver I get ~4700fps. I neither know nor care whether that is good or not; I can run X which is all I care about. I use Windows for games. hth, --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
On Monday 12 March 2007 20:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm actually having the same problem, but after I took out device agp out of my kernel. And I still cannot start x with nvidia driver. It complains that /dev/nvidiactl couldn't be opened. And then it says it failed to load the kernel module. It seems that the graphics card is not detected. Does 'pciconf -l | grep nvidia' show anything? What model is it? If it is an older card, you may need the older version of the NVIDIA driver. sysctl -a | grep nvidia hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 1.0-9746 Tue Dec 19 13:20:59 PST 2006 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableALiAGP: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.NvAGP: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.DevicesConnected: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.RmLogonRC: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.DetectPrimaryVga: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.dwords: For comparison, here is my output. Note that there are card specific entries. # sysctl -a | grep nvidia nvidia 603 1293K -38844 16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096 nvidia0: GeForce 7600 GS port 0xbc00-0xbc7f mem 0xfd00-0xfdff,0xc000-0xcfff,0xfc00-0xfcff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci3 nvidia0: [GIANT-LOCKED] hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 1.0-9746 Tue Dec 19 13:20:59 PST 2006 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableALiAGP: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.NvAGP: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.DevicesConnected: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.RmLogonRC: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.DetectPrimaryVga: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.dwords: hw.nvidia.cards.0.model: GeForce 7600 GS hw.nvidia.cards.0.irq: 16 hw.nvidia.cards.0.vbios: 05.73.22.16.02 hw.nvidia.cards.0.type: PCI-E dev.nvidia.0.%desc: GeForce 7600 GS dev.nvidia.0.%driver: nvidia dev.nvidia.0.%location: slot=0 function=0 dev.nvidia.0.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x10de device=0x0392 subvendor=0x3842 subdevice=0xc547 class=0x03 dev.nvidia.0.%parent: pci3 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
Pieter de Goeje wrote: Look here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html or the dutch version: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/nl_NL.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html Basically it comes down to this: # cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf # cp GENERIC MYKERNEL edit MYKERNEL, delete 'device agp' or you could: grep -v agp GENERIC MYKERNEL # cd /usr/src # make kernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL # reboot Regards, Pieter de Goeje Thank you for your extensive answer. I tried both your method and the method described in the handbook*. I still get the same error message though**. I have attached MYKERNEL, maybe you can take a look at it to see if somethings wrong? **Building a Kernel* 1. Change to the /usr/src directory: # cd /usr/src 2. Compile the kernel: # make buildkernel KERNCONF=/MYKERNEL/ 3. Install the new kernel: # make installkernel KERNCONF=/MYKERNEL/ ** Error message login: NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the AMD CPU and OS kernel NVRM: kernel upgrade recommended. # # GENERIC -- Generic kernel configuration file for FreeBSD/i386 # # For more information on this file, please read the handbook section on # Kernel Configuration Files: # # http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html # # The handbook is also available locally in /usr/share/doc/handbook # if you've installed the doc distribution, otherwise always see the # FreeBSD World Wide Web server (http://www.FreeBSD.org/) for the # latest information. # # An exhaustive list of options and more detailed explanations of the # device lines is also present in the ../../conf/NOTES and NOTES files. # If you are in doubt as to the purpose or necessity of a line, check first # in NOTES. # # $FreeBSD: src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC,v 1.429.2.13 2006/10/09 18:41:36 simon Exp $ machine i386 cpu I486_CPU cpu I586_CPU cpu I686_CPU ident GENERIC # To statically compile in device wiring instead of /boot/device.hints #hints GENERIC.hints # Default places to look for devices. makeoptions DEBUG=-g# Build kernel with gdb(1) debug symbols options SCHED_4BSD # 4BSD scheduler options PREEMPTION # Enable kernel thread preemption options INET# InterNETworking options INET6 # IPv6 communications protocols options FFS # Berkeley Fast Filesystem options SOFTUPDATES # Enable FFS soft updates support options UFS_ACL # Support for access control lists options UFS_DIRHASH # Improve performance on big directories options MD_ROOT # MD is a potential root device options NFSCLIENT # Network Filesystem Client options NFSSERVER # Network Filesystem Server options NFS_ROOT# NFS usable as /, requires NFSCLIENT options MSDOSFS # MSDOS Filesystem options CD9660 # ISO 9660 Filesystem options PROCFS # Process filesystem (requires PSEUDOFS) options PSEUDOFS# Pseudo-filesystem framework options GEOM_GPT# GUID Partition Tables. options COMPAT_43 # Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!] options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 # Compatible with FreeBSD4 options COMPAT_FREEBSD5 # Compatible with FreeBSD5 options SCSI_DELAY=5000 # Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI options KTRACE # ktrace(1) support options SYSVSHM # SYSV-style shared memory options SYSVMSG # SYSV-style message queues options SYSVSEM # SYSV-style semaphores options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING # POSIX P1003_1B real-time extensions options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV# install a CDEV entry in /dev options ADAPTIVE_GIANT # Giant mutex is adaptive. device apic# I/O APIC # Bus support. device eisa device pci # Floppy drives device fdc # ATA and ATAPI devices device ata device atadisk # ATA disk drives device ataraid # ATA RAID drives device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives device atapifd # ATAPI floppy drives device atapist # ATAPI tape drives options ATA_STATIC_ID # Static device numbering # SCSI Controllers device ahb # EISA AHA1742 family device ahc # AHA2940 and onboard AIC7xxx devices options AHC_REG_PRETTY_PRINT# Print register bitfields in debug #
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
[Pieter de Goeje [EMAIL PROTECTED]] You really need to delete 'device AGP' from your kernel config and rebuild your kernel. Really? NVIDIA's README file says that shouldn't be necessary. |Note that current FreeBSD releases are shipped with agp.ko built into the |kernel; in order to allow NvAGP to work, the kernel can be rebuilt without |'device agp' or the following entry added to /boot/device.hints: | | hint.agp.0.disabled=1 -=EPS=- (using a different model NVIDIA card) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
On Tue 13 Mar 2007 17:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pieter de Goeje wrote: Look here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html or the dutch version: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/nl_NL.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html Basically it comes down to this: # cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf # cp GENERIC MYKERNEL edit MYKERNEL, delete 'device agp' or you could: grep -v agp GENERIC MYKERNEL # cd /usr/src # make kernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL # reboot Regards, Pieter de Goeje Thank you for your extensive answer. I tried both your method and the method described in the handbook*. I still get the same error message though**. I have attached MYKERNEL, maybe you can take a look at it to see if somethings wrong? Next time you build a kernel, you should change indent GENERIC to indent MYKERNEL This will avoid any confusion about which kernel you are using. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
Norbert Papke wrote: It seems that the graphics card is not detected. Does 'pciconf -l | grep nvidia' show anything? What model is it? If it is an older card, you may need the older version of the NVIDIA driver. To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pciconf show this: pciconf -l | grep nvidia [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x03 card=0x21881682 chip=0x00f510de rev=0xa2 I have a Geforce XFX 7800 GS AGP why does it show up as pci? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
Hello Pieter, I hope this might be helpful for you. It's a forum for FreeBSD using nvidia. You can also find it from www.nvidia.com. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=47 I found alot of helpful information there when setting up my OpenGL programming environment. Good luck! [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Pieter de Goeje wrote: You really need to delete 'device AGP' from your kernel config and rebuild your kernel. When everything is working OK, the hw.nvidia sysctl will look like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ sysctl hw.nvidia hw.nvidia.agp.card.rates: 8x 4x hw.nvidia.agp.card.fw: supported hw.nvidia.agp.card.sba: supported hw.nvidia.agp.card.registers: 0xff000e1b:0x1f000302 hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: enabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: nvidia hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: 8x hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: disabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: enabled [ ... ] hw.nvidia.cards.0.model: GeForce 7600 GT hw.nvidia.cards.0.irq: 16 hw.nvidia.cards.0.vbios: 05.73.22.25.70 hw.nvidia.cards.0.type: AGP Regards, Pieter de Goeje Do you have a link where I can more (newbie friendly) information on how to do this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
Eric P. Scott wrote: [Pieter de Goeje [EMAIL PROTECTED]] You really need to delete 'device AGP' from your kernel config and rebuild your kernel. Really? NVIDIA's README file says that shouldn't be necessary. |Note that current FreeBSD releases are shipped with agp.ko built into the |kernel; in order to allow NvAGP to work, the kernel can be rebuilt without |'device agp' or the following entry added to /boot/device.hints: | | hint.agp.0.disabled=1 -=EPS=- (using a different model NVIDIA card) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have tried editing /boot/device.hints first* but this didn't work. Removing AGP from the kernel also did also zero :'( * *# tail /boot/device.hints* [code]hint.ie.0.maddr=0xd hint.fe.0.at=isa hint.fe.0.disabled=1 hint.fe.0.port=0x300 hint.lnc.0.at=isa hint.lnc.0.disabled=1 hint.lnc.0.port=0x280 hint.lnc.0.irq=10 hint.lnc.0.drq=0 hint.agp.0.disabled=1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
Op dinsdag 13 maart 2007 19:51, schreef Eric P. Scott: [Pieter de Goeje [EMAIL PROTECTED]] You really need to delete 'device AGP' from your kernel config and rebuild your kernel. Really? NVIDIA's README file says that shouldn't be necessary. |Note that current FreeBSD releases are shipped with agp.ko built into the |kernel; in order to allow NvAGP to work, the kernel can be rebuilt without |'device agp' or the following entry added to /boot/device.hints: | | hint.agp.0.disabled=1 -=EPS=- (using a different model NVIDIA card) Hmm, you're probably right, I'll try it out some time. - Pieter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
Op dinsdag 13 maart 2007 17:44, schreef [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thank you for your extensive answer. I tried both your method and the method described in the handbook*. I still get the same error message though**. I have attached MYKERNEL, maybe you can take a look at it to see if somethings wrong? [snip] Error message login: NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the AMD CPU and OS kernel NVRM: kernel upgrade recommended. Ok, the only other reason I can think of right now is that your motherboard's agp chipset isn't supported by the nvidia driver. In that case you'll need to load the FreeBSD agp driver and recompile the nvidia driver with support for freebsd's agp driver. # cd /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver # make config check FREEBSD_AGP # make clean # make deinstall reinstall clean Also, you need to go back to the GENERIC kernel w/ agp included, or load agp by specifying agp_load=yes in /boot/loader.conf. Hope this helps, Pieter de Goeje ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
Roger Olofsson wrote: Hello Pieter, I hope this might be helpful for you. It's a forum for FreeBSD using nvidia. You can also find it from www.nvidia.com. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=47 I found alot of helpful information there when setting up my OpenGL programming environment. Good luck! As you can see I have already posted a thread there :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pciconf -l | grep nvidia [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x03 card=0x21881682 chip=0x00f510de rev=0xa2 I have a Geforce XFX 7800 GS AGP why does it show up as pci? Mine also shows up as PCI. As long as it works, I don't mind: %pciconf -l | grep nvidia [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x03 card=0x000210b0 chip=0x017110de rev=0xa3 hdr=0x00 I'd be curious to know whether Pieter's last suggestion helps. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
Pieter de Goeje wrote: Ok, the only other reason I can think of right now is that your motherboard's agp chipset isn't supported by the nvidia driver. In that case you'll need to load the FreeBSD agp driver and recompile the nvidia driver with support for freebsd's agp driver. # cd /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver # make config check FREEBSD_AGP # make clean # make deinstall reinstall clean Also, you need to go back to the GENERIC kernel w/ agp included, or load agp by specifying agp_load=yes in /boot/loader.conf. Hope this helps, Pieter de Goeje I recompiled the kernel with AGP support enabled. The FreeBSD agp driver yields the same results. Meaning the same error message* and the same fps :-( . Maybe it is an idea to upgrade the kernel? I searched for a good howto but couldn't find anything useful. Who knows a link with more information about this? *login: NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the AMD CPU and OS kernel NVRM: kernel upgrade recommended. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
Roger Olofsson wrote: Hello Pieter, I hope this might be helpful for you. It's a forum for FreeBSD using nvidia. You can also find it from www.nvidia.com. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=47 I found alot of helpful information there when setting up my OpenGL programming environment. Good luck! As you can see I have already posted a thread there :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
What version of FreeBSD are you currently running. Check out the FreeBSD Handbook for step-by-step instructions for synchronizing your source and building an updated kernel and userland. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pieter de Goeje wrote: (snip) fps :-( . Maybe it is an idea to upgrade the kernel? I searched for a good howto but couldn't find anything useful. Who knows a link with more information about this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
Chris Slothouber wrote: What version of FreeBSD are you currently running. Check out the FreeBSD Handbook for step-by-step instructions for synchronizing your source and building an updated kernel and userland. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pieter de Goeje wrote: (snip) fps :-( . Maybe it is an idea to upgrade the kernel? I searched for a good howto but couldn't find anything useful. Who knows a link with more information about this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is the only possible to upgrade the kernel by upgrading FreeBSD as a whole? For now if I understand the total upgrading idea. I would like to keep FreeBSD stable. in order to upgrade the kernel I need to: 1 Use the cvsup program (gotta figure how yet) 2 Rebuilding world: read /usr/src/UPDATING # make buildworld # make buildkernel # make installkernel # reboot single user mode # mergemaster -p # make installworld # mergemaster # reboot # cd /usr/src # make buildkernel KERNCONF=/MYKERNEL/ # make installkernel KERNCONF=/MYKERNEL /Darn this looks pretty complicated :-P ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 22:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Slothouber wrote: What version of FreeBSD are you currently running. Check out the FreeBSD Handbook for step-by-step instructions for synchronizing your source and building an updated kernel and userland. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.ht ml [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pieter de Goeje wrote: (snip) fps :-( . Maybe it is an idea to upgrade the kernel? I searched for a good howto but couldn't find anything useful. Who knows a link with more information about this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is the only possible to upgrade the kernel by upgrading FreeBSD as a whole? For now if I understand the total upgrading idea. I would like to keep FreeBSD stable. in order to upgrade the kernel I need to: Yes the steps below do exactly that: upgrade everything, including the kernel. 1 Use the cvsup program (gotta figure how yet) Use something like the following as supfile: --- cut *default host=cvsup.nl.freebsd.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all cut then run: # csup -g -L 2 supfile For more information: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html 2 Rebuilding world: read /usr/src/UPDATING # make buildworld # make buildkernel # make installkernel You can specify KERNCONF=MYKERNEL here, if you want to build a custom kernel. # reboot single user mode # mergemaster -p # make installworld # mergemaster mergemaster -U will save you some time here... # reboot Correct. # cd /usr/src # make buildkernel KERNCONF=/MYKERNEL/ # make installkernel KERNCONF=/MYKERNEL Not necessary (already done above). By the way specify MYKERNEL without any '/' signs. /Darn this looks pretty complicated :-P Good Luck! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
Pieter de Goeje wrote: Yes the steps below do exactly that: upgrade everything, including the kernel. 1 Use the cvsup program (gotta figure how yet) Use something like the following as supfile: --- cut *default host=cvsup.nl.freebsd.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all cut then run: # csup -g -L 2 supfile For more information: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html Good Luck! I am afraid I already have a problem: # cvsup standard-supfile Cannot get IP address of my own host -- is its hostname correct? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Slothouber wrote: What version of FreeBSD are you currently running. Sorry for pressing the point, but it seems you have not yet told us which version of FreeBSD you are running. /Darn this looks pretty complicated :-P In that case, it may be simpler to just back up a few directories and install the latest version from scratch. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying for several days now to get 3d acceleration working on FreebSD for my XFX 7800 GS. But nothing what I've tried worked :-( . Below is a collection of useful information I've gathered thus far. Who can help me? *# glxinfo | fgrep direct* Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified try glxinfo as the user which runs the xserver not as root (and only when the x server is running) (or run xhost + as the user who runs the xserver before you use glxinfo as root or any other user - however i wouldn't recommend this version) -- Armin Pirkovitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
Running glxinfo as user works: $ glxinfo | fgrep direct direct rendering: Yes 3d acceleration still isn't working though :-( : $ sysctl hw.nvidia.agp.status hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: n/a (unused) hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: n/a (disabled) hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: n/a (disabled) hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: n/a (disabled) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled means that the nvidia AGP driver isn't working, not that 3d acceleration isn't working. If you want to use the nvidia agp driver, then you should compile a kernel without device agp. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html On Mon 12 Mar 2007 13:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running glxinfo as user works: $ glxinfo | fgrep direct direct rendering: Yes 3d acceleration still isn't working though :-( : $ sysctl hw.nvidia.agp.status hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: n/a (unused) hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: n/a (disabled) hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: n/a (disabled) hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: n/a (disabled) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Travel important today; Internal Revenue men arrive tomorrow. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
Martin Tournoij wrote: hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled means that the nvidia AGP driver isn't working, not that 3d acceleration isn't working. If you want to use the nvidia agp driver, then you should compile a kernel without device agp. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html Is this really true? Who can confirm this? I also wonder why glxgears in FreeBSD gives me 5000 fps, while in Linux gives me 13000. To get 5000 fps in Linux I need to disable 3d support :-\ . ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Tournoij wrote: hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled means that the nvidia AGP driver isn't working, not that 3d acceleration isn't working. If you want to use the nvidia agp driver, then you should compile a kernel without device agp. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html I believe it's enough to put this line into /boot/device.hints: hint.agp.0.disabled=1 Is this really true? Who can confirm this? I also wonder why glxgears in FreeBSD gives me 5000 fps, while in Linux gives me 13000. To get 5000 fps in Linux I need to disable 3d support :-\ . Have you installed the port or package nvidia-driver (or one of its siblings)? The documentation that comes with it will probably tell you what you need to know. On my own machine I have NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-9631, and I get this: %sysctl hw.nvidia.agp.status hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: enabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: nvidia hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: 4x hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: disabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: disabled -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
Tore Lund wrote: I believe it's enough to put this line into /boot/device.hints: hint.agp.0.disabled=1 Is this really true? Who can confirm this? I also wonder why glxgears in FreeBSD gives me 5000 fps, while in Linux gives me 13000. To get 5000 fps in Linux I need to disable 3d support :-\ . Have you installed the port or package nvidia-driver (or one of its siblings)? The documentation that comes with it will probably tell you what you need to know. On my own machine I have NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-9631, and I get this: %sysctl hw.nvidia.agp.status hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: enabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: nvidia hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: 4x hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: disabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: disabled I have installed the port nvidia-driver. I have followed all the step in the readme (including adding the line to /boot/device.hint see below). I wonder though is nvidia 3d acceleration supported under FreeBSD? From the readme: / The NVIDIA Accelerated FreeBSD Driver Set brings accelerated 2D functionality and high-performance OpenGL support to FreeBSD x86 with the use of NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs). These drivers provide optimized hardware acceleration for OpenGL and X applications and support nearly all recent NVIDIA graphics chips (please see Appendix A for a complete list of supported chips). TwinView, TV-Out and flat panel displays are also supported. / P.S. I also have ran ppracer. Results: *FreeBSD* *110 fps* *Gentoo Linux* *240 fps* Additional information: *# tail /boot/device.hints* /hint.ie.0.maddr=0xd hint.fe.0.at=isa hint.fe.0.disabled=1 hint.fe.0.port=0x300 hint.lnc.0.at=isa hint.lnc.0.disabled=1 hint.lnc.0.port=0x280 hint.lnc.0.irq=10 hint.lnc.0.drq=0 hint.agp.0.disabled=1/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
OK. The line hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled looks very odd, so I had to ask. If you have also modified your xorg.conf according to the docs (or used nvidia-xconfig), this is baffling. Sorry I am unable to help. P.S. I also have ran ppracer. Results: *FreeBSD* *110 fps* *Gentoo Linux* *240 fps* I did not get more than 35 fps, in 800x600 resolution... Lol! I am a spoiled gamer used to run the latest games on the highest setting (i.e. Armed Assault :-P ). I have used nvidia-xconfig and also configured xorg.conf manually. Do you agree with my assessment that 3d acceleration isn't working? Thanks for trying to help! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed the port nvidia-driver. I have followed all the step in the readme (including adding the line to /boot/device.hint see below). OK. The line hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled looks very odd, so I had to ask. If you have also modified your xorg.conf according to the docs (or used nvidia-xconfig), this is baffling. Sorry I am unable to help. P.S. I also have ran ppracer. Results: *FreeBSD* *110 fps* *Gentoo Linux* *240 fps* I did not get more than 35 fps, in 800x600 resolution... -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
On Mon, March 12, 2007 22:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK. The line hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled looks very odd, so I had to ask. If you have also modified your xorg.conf according to the docs (or used nvidia-xconfig), this is baffling. Sorry I am unable to help. P.S. I also have ran ppracer. Results: *FreeBSD* *110 fps* *Gentoo Linux* *240 fps* I did not get more than 35 fps, in 800x600 resolution... Lol! I am a spoiled gamer used to run the latest games on the highest setting (i.e. Armed Assault :-P ). I have used nvidia-xconfig and also configured xorg.conf manually. Do you agree with my assessment that 3d acceleration isn't working? Thanks for trying to help! Armed Assault..? Are you trying to run armed assault in wine? if so, then remember that wine support for FreeBSD is horrible at best... Anyway, I set hint.agp.0.disabled=1 and now hw.nvidia.agp.status.status is set to enabled (it was disabled before) glxgears results are the same, ~2300 FPS. In my experience, games on FreeBSD are always slow, my hardware isn't very fast (900MHz, 384MB RAM,Geforce FX5200) but on windows 2000 I'm able to play even fairly recent games (Such as the punisher, civ4). On FreeBSD, anything with more graphics than rogue will be anything from slow to unplayable, even though FreeBSD outperforms windows in almost every other way... Conclusion: Use windows for games, FreeBSD for serious stuff ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
Martin Tournoij wrote: Conclusion: Use windows for games, FreeBSD for serious stuff ... Good assessment :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
I'm actually having the same problem, but after I took out device agp out of my kernel. And I still cannot start x with nvidia driver. It complains that /dev/nvidiactl couldn't be opened. And then it says it failed to load the kernel module. Any idea. sysctl -a | grep nvidia hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 1.0-9746 Tue Dec 19 13:20:59 PST 2006 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableALiAGP: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.NvAGP: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.DevicesConnected: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.RmLogonRC: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.DetectPrimaryVga: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.dwords: So the driver is loaded but nothing is working. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
