Official FreeBSD drivers

[disenter]

actially i thought it was -current and -stable that it DOES support. :P I'm trying to get it to run with -release which it makes no mention of in the readme. *grumbles* sorry i can't help really... i need help to!! :)

[dfish3r]

Does anyone know when the next release of the nvidia drivers for freebsd will occur?
I posted a problem I'm having with a dual dvi setup and I haven't received any responses.
(http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=26478)
I'd like to make sure this bug gets addressed, but I can't seem to find anyone who is listening.

[SrowLain]

hi there,
i'm using freebsd 5.1 and encountered the same probs
with nforce2-board and nvidia graphic card.
in my opinion the graphic-driver recognizes first the
nforce2-chipset ( thats why it says it does not rec. your gpu @ disenter)
and so the module is not loaded.
ugly bug-fix:

write "kldload nvidia" at the last line in your rc.conf
and it should work!!! :)
(with 1 or 2 error-messages)

this is a fine example of :lame: - software-engineering!!!
hope some folks of nvidia-crew takes care of this... (spit)

so long...

[zander]

FWIW, this particular issue can easily be resolved in the driver's probe routine (nvidia_pci.c), I believe the ports/ version includes such a fix.

[SrowLain]

i use 5.1-current , cvs-ports
installed the driver via ports
and have the prob too
if someone has a solution... :angel2: ???

[Liontaur]

I've got a GeForce 4 MX 4000 card anybody have an idea on how I can get it working under FreeBSD 4.9?

[marijnh]

The nvidia FreeBSD drivers have been working decently for me so far, but I have one problem - when trying to draw a vertex buffer (a GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object thingy) the application promptly drops dead without saying anything. Is this a common problem or could it be something specific to my system?

[darius]

hi there,
i'm using freebsd 5.1 and encountered the same probs
with nforce2-board and nvidia graphic card.
in my opinion the graphic-driver recognizes first the
nforce2-chipset ( thats why it says it does not rec. your gpu @ disenter)
and so the module is not loaded.
ugly bug-fix:

write "kldload nvidia" at the last line in your rc.conf
and it should work!!! :)
(with 1 or 2 error-messages)

this is a fine example of :lame: - software-engineering!!!
hope some folks of nvidia-crew takes care of this... (spit)

so long...

Uhh don't put executable stuff in rc.conf THAT's lame.

There is a proper fix for that, update your ports tree and rebuild the x11/nvidia-driver port as it has patches to stop it capturing devices it shouldn't and to work in later versions of 5.x (ie fix the wrong version message)

[knick_]

Hello all,

I really like FreeBSD, and using it for a long period of time. I had ATI RadeON 9200SE Video card, for wich I could`t find drivers. It turned out that NVidia have drivers for its cards, I read README, and appendix of supported graphics card, were I saw that GeForce 5200 is supproted. So I buy it, and install drivers. But when I`m starting X, I got heap of charecters on screen, and PC hang. Nothing helps, because of cold reboot, logs from X server did`t saved. What is a problem? Is this card really supported? And if it not, why you write that it is? What to do? =(I`m running FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE XFree86 Version 4.3.99.15 and have ASUS V9520/TD (GeForce 5200) videocard

[darius]

I have a GeForce FX Go5200 in my laptop and it works very well.
I am running FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT (dated Apr 2) and use the latest version of the ports/x11/nvidia-driver driver and it works fine.

Here is my config on the laptop -> http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/I8600/

[snabb]

It turned out that NVidia have drivers for its cards, I read README, and appendix of supported graphics card, were I saw that GeForce 5200 is supproted. So I buy it, and install drivers. But when I`m starting X, I got heap of charecters on screen, and PC hang.

I have exactly the same problem with Dell supplied FX 5200 card on FreeBSD 5.2.1. I have had no problems with older Nvidia cards.

Looks like it is time for Nvidia to update the FreeBSD driver. Nvidia, care to comment when this is going to happen?

[Bocha]

I have exactly the same problem with Dell supplied FX 5200 card on FreeBSD 5.2.1. I have had no problems with older Nvidia cards.

Looks like it is time for Nvidia to update the FreeBSD driver. Nvidia, care to comment when this is going to happen?
Right the same trouble with GeForce 5600. I think it's time to make new drivers!

[erek]

my FX 5900 non-Ultra works fine..

dmesg:
http://neoisp.tripod.com/dmesg.txt

FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p4 "pciconf -l -v":

nvidia0@pci2:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x033110de rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
device = 'GeForce FX 5900'
class = display
subclass = VGA

XFree86 4.4.0 "scanpci":

pci bus 0x0002 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x10de device 0x0331
nVidia Corporation NV35 [GeForce FX 5900]

[mayo]

Hello,

I've been trying to get my video card working with the nvidia-driver on FreeBSD for a few days now with no luck.

The stats on the video card are:
Gainward Ultra/980
GeForce MX 5700

Stats on the OS:
FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p7
FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT (April 12th)
FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT (May 21st)

All my attempts described below have been done on all 3 systems:

-Tried installing the driver from ports and directly from nvidia website - fail either way

-Tried with FreeBSD's AGP support (compiling the driver with appropriate options) - fail

-Tried with NVidia's AGP support (disabled device agp in kernel) - fail

-Tried with FORCE_AGP_RATE and set hw.nvidia.registry.ReqAGPRate=4 (freebsd doesn't do well with 8x agp - the manual with the card mentions that all agp 4, 6, and 8 are supported)

The drivers were tested with all of these options and their combinations thereof without any luck.

when started X, it either freezes right after message saying it's readinng XF86COnfig file, or it "switches the screen" (goes blank like if it was going to graphics mode) and freezes right there. (X does work with my matrox card just fine same config, different driver. I don't have any other Nvidia cards to test it with)

On 5.2-CURRENT from May 21st, when trying to kldload nvidia, I get messages that the dirver will be disabled because the KLD is not the right version (although it was compiled against the same sources (kernel/world) that the current system is running from)

I don't think it's FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT problem, as I know of few other people who are running other video card chipsets on the same system versions as I have without a problem.

Could you please look into this problem and see where I am doing something wrong or if there is a problem with the 5700 chipset support?

any ideas?
mayo

[akoo]

NVIDIA has to wake up and release new drivers for BSD.

[mayo]

NVIDIA has to wake up and release new drivers for BSD.

I agree. I got it working with MX440SE, but I can't get the MX 5700 card working. It seems liek the driver does not even recognize the chipset on the card. (Same with the linux driver)

I think they're waiting for FreeBSD 5.3 release, so when things get a bit more stabilized (eg. thread libs) etc. Although I wouldn't mind them updating the driver (even at current state) so that the newer cards work.

In case anyone is interested how I got it working:
kernel
device agp

nvidia driver from ports
WITH_FREEBSD_AGP
WITH_NVIDIA_HACKS
FORCE_AGP_RATE

XF86Config
driver "nvidia"
Option "NvAgp" "0"

sysctl
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x="1"
hw.nvidia.registry.ReqAGPRate="4"

/etc/libmap.conf
libpthread.so.1 libc_r.so.5
libpthread.so libc_r.so

edit: this is for -current, I haven't tried 4.x releases.

seems to be happy that way, now if just nvidia released some patch so more recent cards work with the drivers. *sigh*

m

[amistry]

NVIDIA has to wake up and release new drivers for BSD.
I think someone has said it, but I'll say it again. Yes, they are working on it. They are waiting on TLS (Thread Local Storage) in -CURRENT. FreeBSD developers have given them a preliminary working implementation recently and they are working togther to get things working. Please be patient things ARE happening.

[mayo]

I think someone has said it, but I'll say it again. Yes, they are working on it. They are waiting on TLS (Thread Local Storage) in -CURRENT. FreeBSD developers have given them a preliminary working implementation recently and they are working togther to get things working. Please be patient things ARE happening.

I'm aware of that .. It has been indirectly mentioned on the freebsd-current mailing list.

What I was saying though, is that they should update the current driver to support the video cards that it claims it already supports. Keep the driver the way it is, just make sure it does recognize the cards it should.

From the readme in the freebsd driver, refering to the readme in the linux driver, it claims that (for eg.) 5700 chipset is supported (few others too), but the driver does not rcognize that chipset (freebsd or linux), which is think is quite sad. I looked at the list of supported cards, it listed it, and I got the card only to find out it's not supported. Now that was a direct lie on nVidia's part, something that doesn't make me a happy camper.

As far as new driver is concerned, yes they are working on it and I'll wait for it patinetly, but I hope they really _do_ hurry up, as I want to use my graphics card that was supposed to work with the previous driver.

m

[cgull]

Can anyone shed light on this? I upgraded to a Asus P4P800e Deluxe / 3.0ghz Prescott / 1024 DDR400 / Gforce FX5900XT. I am on 5.2.1 Release P8. Now when I am in X, the system pauses every second or so. This affects audio playback, mouse movement etc... I am running latest nvidia driver, gnome2.6, X11 (current ports). The issue only occurs in X... system works fine when I am not in X. Anyone have a FX5900 running? I am running with nvidia agp, not FreeBSD. I have reverted to the standard "nv" driver and things are running well. Of coarse I am missing GL and extensions. Unless someone has a solution, I am waiting patiently for an updated driver....


Thx




nvidia0: <Unknown> mem 0xe8000000-0xefffffff,0xfd000000-0xfdffffff irq 10 at device 0.0 on pci1

exclusive sleep mutex dev.mtx_api r = 0 (0xc75cc67c) locked @ /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/work/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-4365/src/nvidia_subr.c:753
nvidia: agp_find_device failed, chipset unsupported?

Jun 17 21:04:13 raptor kernel: exclusive sleep mutex ctl.mtx_api r = 0 (0xc872c65c) locked @ /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/work/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-4365/src/nvidia_subr.c:753

[xpto]

<i>
FreeBSD Graphics Driver Download

Version: 1.0-4365
File Size: 4.4 MB
Release Date: July 1, 2003
</i>

what a PITA, 1 year after the last release, freebsd users were left on dust from nvidia lack of support
I wonder how much does cost to pay a bsd developer to apply the lastest patchs from lunix drivers for this plataform, and release them officially for the BSD everyday bigger comunity

Even yesterday, i was playing urbanterror on some european server, i get almost half the lag/pings and twice fps in linux than on freebsd. Same game version, same patches same everything. Well, you can say video drivers, cant change lag or so, but since i run on a builtin nvidia relcrap if_net card, and knowing BSD ipstack that can explains all

argh to be true theresnt official freebsd nforce drivers despite some aussie hacker work, that does it, pretty well. So perhaps my complain must be wider.

But the true is this lack of support is drilling my nerves.. :bash:
hey perhaps im the problem :screwy: for spending my precious money on this wanna-be "professional->home costumers" companies!

[xpto]

running freebsd5.2.1-p9

[errodr]

Need help please...

I downloaded the latest NVidia drivers for my GeForce MX card, and attempted to compile the driver.

I am getting the following errors:

ELF binary type "3" not known.
/compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected *** Error code 2

Stop in /root/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-4365/lib/compat *** Error code 1

Stop in /root/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-4365/lib *** Error code 1

Any ideas???


Thanks...

[errodr]

I am running FreeBSD 5.0

[darius]

I would strongly recommend upgrading your ports tree with cvsup (see the handbook) and using the port
cd /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver
make install clean

After that you just have to edit your XF86Config file to use the nvidia driver (vs the nv one) and you should be set.

[man]

Why this driver doesn't support riva128?