back to BSD for a breath of fresh air need help with Nvidia please

[whispersGhost]

Hello

i was running solaris 2008.11 for a while and it was fun,
but when i played in Secondlife and moved the FlyCam with the mouse
the computer would lock up on me several times.
i had to reboot too many times after a while it became a nightmare.

it may be a graphic problem i dont know so i figure let me come tback to BSD a while for a breath of fresh air and here i am with FreeBSD 7.0

i understand the Geoforce FX5500 is not suported under 7.0.
i was hoping maybe someone can guide me through a little bit
to get my driver working.

i did look on nvidia site and its not there now
which port woud you reccomend under X11?
i do need to have GLX running

Thank You

[TerryP]

http://us.download.nvidia.com/freebs...ppendix-e.html

looks like x11/nvidia-driver-173 should work for an FX5500.

[whispersGhost]

@Terry

That worked out well thanks

i downloaded the file NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-71.86.06.tar.gz from the nvidia site
installed it as in the directtions rebooted and theres my nvidia splash screen

Thanks again




Terry
hi
im just updating the ports at the momet. after that i will try it out

Thank You


Quote:
Originally Posted by TerryP View Post
http://us.download.nvidia.com/freebs...ppendix-e.html

looks like x11/nvidia-driver-173 should work for an FX5500.
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hi

@terry
no unfortuantly that did not work
i did the usual rename nv to nvidia and enabled glx and enabled nvidia in the loaderconf



and still wont work
i may try one or two of the legacy drivers from their link you show

Originally Posted by TerryP

http://us.download.nvidia.com/freebs...ppendix-e.html

looks like x11/nvidia-driver-173 should work for an FX5500.

[Carpetsmoker]

Did you install the driver from ports? Or did you download & install it manually? I would highly recommend using the x11/nvidia-driver-173 port.

First, remove any and all nvidia-driver* ports with:
# pkg_delete

Then reinstall graphics/libGL:
# cd /usr/ports/graphics/libGL && make clean build deinstall install clean

The install the x11/nvidia-driver-173 port:
# cd /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver-173 && make clean install clean

Add nvidia_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf if it isn't there already.
Also add linux_enable="yes" to /etc/rc.conf if you compiled the driver with linux support.

Reboot, this is sometimes needed for the nvidia driver.

Make sure the kernel driver sees your nVidia card:
% dmesg | grep nvidia

If it still doesn't work, post your xorg.conf.

[whispersGhost]

dmesg | grep nvidia

nvidia0: <GeForce FX 5500> on vgapci0
vgapci0: child nvidia0 requested pci_enable_busmaster
vgapci0: child nvidia0 requested pci_enable_io
nvidia0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
nvidia0: [ITHREAD]

but as i said i have to keep installig nvidia on each reboot

i am going to try what you said
about reinstalling the graphics/libGL

is build deinstall clean the same really as make deinstall clean?

[Carpetsmoker]

is build deinstall clean the same really as make deinstall clean?

Yes, with `build deinstall install' you will still have the old version installed if the build phase fails, with just `deinstall install' you won't.

[whispersGhost]

hi

i did that deinstall and it installed well with no problems