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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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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
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
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:
[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
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
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
[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
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
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.
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Pciconf show this:
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
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
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
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?
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
[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
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
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
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:
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
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.
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
[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
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?
*
# sysctl hw.nvidia.agp.status*
hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled
[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
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.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
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.
[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.
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
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
[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
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
Martin Tournoij wrote:
Conclusion:
Use windows for games, FreeBSD for serious stuff ...
Good assessment :)
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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:
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