On Wednesday 12 February 2003 8:29, BSD baby wrote:
Does the default install of XFree86 4.2 binaries from the
FreeBSD 4.7 CD-Rom lack any drivers? PCI video drivers, maybe?
When I set up a new FreeBSD 4.7 box from CD-Rom I choose the
option to install all sources + XFree binaries since I'm
going to be running XFree86/KDE.
Usually it's not a problem, but on a new box with no AGP slot,
I've tried TWO different XFree-approved PCI video cards and
BOTH give me this error:
Fatal server error:
XFree86 has found a valid card configuration.
Unfortunately the appropriate data has not been added to
xf86PciInfo.h.
my scanpci -v has this:
pci bus 0x cardnum 0x0b function 0x00: vendor 0x10de device
0x002d NVidia Riva TNT2 M64
STATUS0x02b0 COMMAND 0x0007
CLASS 0x03 0x00 0x00 REVISION 0x15
BIST 0x00 HEADER 0x00 LATENCY 0x20 CACHE 0x00
BASE0 0xde00 addr 0xde00 MEM
BASE1 0xdc08 addr 0xdc00 MEM PREFETCHABLE
MAX_LAT 0x01 MIN_GNT 0x05 INT_PIN 0x01 INT_LINE 0x0b
I believe you have to go through the non-trivial exercise of
installing the Nvidia driver..I have not done this yet, due to lack of
patience, but several people on the list have been there and done it,
look back in the recent archives for long discussions on it...
Or probably someone else will give you a pointer.
Nvidia support for FreeBSD is very new.
I wish that was it!
But I had the same thing happen with a very standard ATI Rage 128 PCI
card.
Exact same errors. The new NVidia card was a last resort.
Both are listed as fully supported by XFree 4.2
Try installing XFree86 from the packages tree instead of directly from the
distributions. In older versions of FreeBSD, installing from distributions
would give you XFree86 3.3.6 (which was still considered to be the stable
X server), and you would have to install 4.x from packages right at the end
of the install. I don't know if this is still the case with 4.7, I havn't
needed a fresh install in ages.
Even better, try using CVSup to upgrade your ports tree, then
[install/upgrade to] the latest XFree86 from ports. At last time I
upgraded, it seemed to automatically include nVidia drivers (and everything
else you need, even drivers for abandoned 3Dfx hardware) I would really
do this any way as the XFree86 packages included with the 4.7 CD are
obsolete and have been replaced by XFree86 4.2.1, which is really worth the
download time to upgrade.
While you're at it, also make sure to upgrade to KDE 3.1, it is a huge
improvement over the 3.0.x version included on the CD, and alot of security
and stability issues have been addressed. Also, the CD version only comes
with the kdebase and kdelibs modules. The other modules have stacks and
stacks of nifty applications and bells and wistles for you to play with, to
get them, you'll have to upgrade anyway, since they will need the latest
kdebase and kdelibs.
You can check the handbook for instructions on CVSup, ports and
portinstall/portupgrade.
Will
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