Re: Re: Having issues with the nvidia driver on my box
On Dec 28, 2008 5:42am, Marco Beishuizen mb...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:14:38 + Did you install the latest Nvidia driver? Perhaps your card isn't supported anymore. Nvidia dropped some older chipsets in their latest driver. You can try nvidia-driver-96xx or nvidia-driver-71xx in the ports. I hope this helps. I installed the nvidia-driver-96xx because when I installed the latest one it said that my chipset wasn't supported. Actually, I think that the suggestions from Mike helped. I added the option in my xorg.conf file that says to use the nvidia agp drivers before using the kernel agp.ko. Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Having issues with the nvidia driver on my box
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:14:38 + af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, For several reasons, one of which was to use the nvidia driver for my board, I switched from amd64 to i386. So, I installed the driver and although things are working I'm getting this on console 0: NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the amd CPU and OS kernel NVRM: kernel upgrade recommended So, when I installed the nvidia driver I said to enable AGP. (Figuring only that this is an AGP board, why not?) My graphical environment works but I'd like to resolve this. Also, I think that some little quirks in my display can be attributed to this, but I'm not sure. Is there some sort of kernel option I must include and build my own kernel? Thanks, Andy ps in case it matters, my board is rather old. I purchased it 4 years ago and as I'm not a gamer, it suffices quite nicely. Here's the driver I had to install for support of this chip: Did you install the latest Nvidia driver? Perhaps your card isn't supported anymore. Nvidia dropped some older chipsets in their latest driver. You can try nvidia-driver-96xx or nvidia-driver-71xx in the ports. I hope this helps. regards Marco -- Economies of scale: The notion that bigger is better. In particular, that if you want a certain amount of computer power, it is much better to buy one biggie than a bunch of smallies. Accepted as an article of faith by people who love big machines and all that complexity. Rejected as an article of faith by those who love small machines and all those limitations. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Having issues with the nvidia driver on my box
af300...@gmail.com writes: For several reasons, one of which was to use the nvidia driver for my board, I switched from amd64 to i386. So, I installed the driver and although things are working I'm getting this on console 0: NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the amd CPU and OS kernel NVRM: kernel upgrade recommended Do you have AGP in the kernel? So, when I installed the nvidia driver I said to enable AGP. (Figuring only that this is an AGP board, why not?) If you say 'no' to that, I think it will use its own AGP driver instead of the native one. ps in case it matters, my board is rather old. I purchased it 4 years ago and as I'm not a gamer, it suffices quite nicely. Here's the driver I had to install for support of this chip: nvidia-driver-96.43.07 NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL ren What do you use NVidia's driver for? If find that the open-source nv driver works just fine for most things (I, too, do not play games on my desktop computer). Until I installed Google Earth, the proprietary driver was completely unnecessary for me. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Having issues with the nvidia driver on my box
Lowell Gilbert wrote: af300...@gmail.com writes: For several reasons, one of which was to use the nvidia driver for my board, I switched from amd64 to i386. So, I installed the driver and although things are working I'm getting this on console 0: NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the amd CPU and OS kernel NVRM: kernel upgrade recommended Do you have AGP in the kernel? So, when I installed the nvidia driver I said to enable AGP. (Figuring only that this is an AGP board, why not?) If you say 'no' to that, I think it will use its own AGP driver instead of the native one. This reminds me of a situation I had on an old KT-400a chipset. Some VIA chipsets had a weak signal condition on one of the AGP pins. The way to make it work was to remove device agp from the kernel, install the nvidia-drivers, and place Option NvAgp 1 in the xorg.conf. I do not believe the OP scenario is a match, as his is working while mine would only show colored bars and trash on the screen. I don't recall which is the default, but here are the options available: Option NvAgp 0 Disable AGP Option NvAgp 1 Use NVIDIA's AGP GART Driver Option NvAgp 2 Use the OS AGP GART driver (agp.ko) Option NvAgp 3 Attempt 2, fall back to 1 Perhaps placing an appropriate choice in Section Device will nuke the error message. The OP can probably discern which AGP is being used from the Xorg.0.log file and choose accordingly. ps in case it matters, my board is rather old. I purchased it 4 years ago and as I'm not a gamer, it suffices quite nicely. Here's the driver I had to install for support of this chip: nvidia-driver-96.43.07 NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL ren [snip] The nvidia-driver ports being broken up into sub-ports because NVidia broke their monolithic into Legacy or New necessitates the need to dig out of the comments in the Makefiles which port matches which hardware. Since the above mentioned version rev matches one of the port installs I am going to just assume that it is the right one - after all it probably wouldn't work at all if it wasn't. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Having issues with the nvidia driver on my box
Hi, For several reasons, one of which was to use the nvidia driver for my board, I switched from amd64 to i386. So, I installed the driver and although things are working I'm getting this on console 0: NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the amd CPU and OS kernel NVRM: kernel upgrade recommended So, when I installed the nvidia driver I said to enable AGP. (Figuring only that this is an AGP board, why not?) My graphical environment works but I'd like to resolve this. Also, I think that some little quirks in my display can be attributed to this, but I'm not sure. Is there some sort of kernel option I must include and build my own kernel? Thanks, Andy ps in case it matters, my board is rather old. I purchased it 4 years ago and as I'm not a gamer, it suffices quite nicely. Here's the driver I had to install for support of this chip: nvidia-driver-96.43.07 NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL ren ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org