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NVIDIA GeForce 9100 not recognized
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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Where you checked for graphics card info?
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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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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Section "Device" Identifier "gfx0" Driver "vesa" Option "DPMS" EndSection Code:
Section "Device" Identifier "gfx0" - Driver "nv" + Driver "vesa" Option "DPMS" EndSection
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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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@BSDfan666
Good point, especially 2.1.14 mentions changes like: Quote:
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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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@ionflux
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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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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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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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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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. Quote:
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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