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Old 31st October 2009
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Dear BSD friends:

I installed FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 on my machine, but unfortunately it doesn't see my graphics card. I was wondering whether anybody on this list might have a similar machine (specs below) on which they could install any of the BSDs. NetBSD 5.0 recognizes this card, but not the wireless one (Atheros AR9281), which I need.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thank you

P.S. Machine specifications:

# CPU
AMD Phenom 9750 Quad-Core Processor (2400.02-MHz K8-class CPU, 95W)
3600 MHz HyperTransport 3.0
Socket AM2+

# Chipset
GeForce 9100

# Motherboard
Pegatron M2N78-LA
HP/Compaq motherboard name: Violet-GL8E

# RAM
8 Gb

# Video Graphics
Integrated on motherboard: GeForce 9100
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Have you installed the nvidia binary? It's in ports, in ports/X11 if I recall correctly.
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but unfortunately it doesn't see my graphics card
Where you checked for graphics card info?

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GeForce 9100
You will have to install the driver from Ports or directly from nvidia.com site:
http://freshports.org/x11/nvidia-driver/
http://nvidia.com/object/freebsd_190.42.html

Here is short way how to achieve that:
http://freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/c...dia-setup.html
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Hi Guys,

Thank you for your quick replies!! Very much appreciated.

Yes, installing the nvidia driver was the first thing I tried, but the "make install clean" command stops with the message "nvidia driver 185.18.36 is only for i386 and you are running amd64"

What is interesting is that NetBSD 5.0.1 recognizes this card and runs X perfectly.
I would be very happy if I could run NetBSD on this machine, but unfortunately it does not recognize my wireless card (Atheros AR9281) - which I absolutely need.

I guess one cannot have everything in life

One thing I noticed though is that on the NetBSD-HEAD man page for ath it shows that my wireless card should now be supported. Is there a way to extract only that driver from NetBSD-HEAD and insert it into my NetBSD-5 stable?? I don't feel comfortable running HEAD as I am a complete beginner. Also, my apologies if the question is stupid!!

Thank you so much for your help!!
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Yes, installing the nvidia driver was the first thing I tried, but the "make install clean" command stops with the message "nvidia driver 185.18.36 is only for i386 and you are running amd64"
nVidia provides blog only for i386, so if you want to stick with amd64, you will have to use open source nv driver from Xorg (no 3D accelration).

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What is interesting is that NetBSD 5.0.1 recognizes this card and runs X perfectly.
NetBSD can at most use nv driver which is also available on FreeBSD.

What errors you get on FreeBSD and how you are setting up the Xorg?

What does not work?
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Hi Vermaden,

To configure X, I use the typical:

# X -configure

It stops with "Number of created screen does not match number of detected devices. Configuration failed".

The /var/log/Xorg.log file ends with:

"NV: ignoring unsupported device C78 (GeForce 9100)".

I am now updating the sources to 8.0-RC2 and will recompile soon.
Let's see if something changes.

Thank you for your quick reply and help!
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The /var/log/Xorg.log file ends with:

"NV: ignoring unsupported device C78 (GeForce 9100)".
So we now know that open source nv driver does not support GeForce 9100, try vesa in driver section, like that:
Code:
Section "Device"
  Identifier "gfx0"
  Driver     "vesa"
  Option     "DPMS"
EndSection
Change:
Code:
Section "Device"
  Identifier "gfx0"
- Driver     "nv"
+ Driver     "vesa"
  Option     "DPMS"
EndSection
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I am now updating the sources to 8.0-RC2 and will recompile soon.
Let's see if something changes.
This will not help, its not FreeBSD related, its Xorg package related, and from RC1 to RC2 nv driver has not been updated.
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An option might be to compile the driver yourself, X is modular now so it's pretty easy to just grab the tarball and unpack it (..or go into the ports tree and try manually updating the port).

The latest release is 2.1.15, FreeBSD appears to have 2.1.13.. and they don't have any FreeBSD specific patches.

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/dri...o-nv/refs/tags
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Good point, especially 2.1.14 mentions changes like:
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More chip names.
New chip support.
More new chips.
http://mail-archive.com/xorg-announc.../msg00673.html
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Hi Guys,

Just tried to change "nv" to "vesa": the X server starts, but is unusable. A few xterm instances of twm but no mouse nor keyboard.

Let me try to compile the driver from ports ...
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FreeBSD 8.0 uses newest Xorg, it means that you will have to add hald/dbus or use that HOWTO to have working mouse/keyboard working:
http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=3935
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Just tried to change "nv" to "vesa": the X server starts, but is unusable.
VESA (VBE actually) is just an unaccelerated framebuffer, it is very slow and not optimal for much of anything.

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Let me try to compile the driver from ports ...
FreeBSD has an outdated version of the 'nv' driver, you'll have to manually update it to the latest version.. i.e: using a text editor or compile it outside of the ports tree.
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Hi Guys,

I just compiled the driver from the ports tree ... no change.
Then I downloaded the newest version (2.1.15) from freedesktop and compiled using:

# ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/X11R6
# make && make install

The commands don't give me any problem, but the new driver doesn't seem to be installed. X -configure gives the same mistake. I must have made a mistake in the installation somewhere ...

Thank you for your patience!
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I've forgotten: do we still use /usr/X11R6? I thought that was dumped for just /usr/local a few years ago.
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Hi Robbak,

I just tried with /usr/local but still cannot see the package installed!
I must be making a silly mistake ...

Is my procedure correct?

# ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local
# make && make install

Thank you!
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I can only suggest how I would build and install that: namely, edit the makefile in the port (it may only be a mater of changing the version number) and compiling it there.
However, the reason that we still have an older nv is that that [edit: probably] doesn't work, and more work is needed to port nv.
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Hi Guys,

I just managed to install the latest xf86-video-nv (version 2.1.15) ...

it's the same old thing. It doesn't work

At this point I think I will go back to NetBSD and try to make the wireless card work ...
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I just managed to install the latest xf86-video-nv (version 2.1.15) ...
Your Xorg.0.log file will indicate the module version being loaded, just to rule out incorrect installation (..and from above, that does seem sort of likely).

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At this point I think I will go back to NetBSD and try to make the wireless card work ...
Atheros 9k devices don't work in NetBSD or OpenBSD.

http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=3915
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Hi Guys,

Thank you for all your replies!

A comment and a question:

1) I noticed that my NetBSD installation (with X server working) is also using the vesa driver! So also in that case, even if X works well, it will probably have limited capabilities. I don't need 3D acceleration though ...

2) Can I install FreeBSD i386 on my machine, even if it has an AMD Phenom X4 processor? Would it result in a performance hit?

Thank you again for your help!
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1) I noticed that my NetBSD installation (with X server working) is also using the vesa driver! So also in that case, even if X works well, it will probably have limited capabilities. I don't need 3D acceleration though ...
The open source 'nv' driver only supports accelerated 2D and XVideo, they only way to get 3D acceleration is via the proprietary driver released by NVidia.

The 'vesa' driver is a really dumb 'framebuffer', almost nothing will be offloaded to your GPU.. it will steal CPU time away from other applications.

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2) Can I install FreeBSD i386 on my machine, even if it has an AMD Phenom X4 processor? Would it result in a performance hit?
AMD64 is just an extension of the original x86 architecture, it can run 32-bit operating systems just fine

As mentioned, NVidia has a proprietary 2D/3D driver.. for FreeBSD (..32-bit) but I don't recommend using it.

Eventually a new reverse engineering project 'nouveau' will replace the 'nv' driver which NVidia barely maintains anymore.

http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/
http://www.freshports.org/x11-driver...-video-nouveau (..found a port, perhaps it'll work?)
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