FreeBSD 7.0 (as of march 6th) and xorg6.9.0

[anonuser]

The nvidia driver says no nvidia card is installed and it can't /dev/nvidiactl open it and i've confirmed that it doesn't exist. Any reason why it wouldn't be created.
I've confirmed that nvidia was loaded, I did not installed with linux compatability as I have no need for it.

[adamk75]

Did you reboot after installing the driver? I had a problem with the driver not creating /dev/nvidiactl till after I rebooted and loaded the module via /boot/loader.conf

Adam

[anonuser]

yes i did. Several reboots later no ctl device

here's a sysctl dump.

hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 1.0-9746 Tue Dec 19 13:20:59 PST 2006
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableALiAGP: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.NvAGP: 1
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1
hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295
hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295
hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.DevicesConnected: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.RmLogonRC: 1
hw.nvidia.registry.DetectPrimaryVga: 1
hw.nvidia.registry.dwords:
hw.nvidia.cards.0.model: GeForce 6800 Series GPU
hw.nvidia.cards.0.irq: 18
hw.nvidia.cards.0.vbios: ??.??.??.??.??
hw.nvidia.cards.0.type: PCI-E
dev.nvidia.0.%desc: GeForce 6800 Series GPU
dev.nvidia.0.%driver: nvidia
dev.nvidia.0.%location: slot=0 function=0
dev.nvidia.0.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x10de device=0x00f9 subvendor=0x0000 subdevice=0x0000 class=0x030000
dev.nvidia.0.%parent: pci1

[anonuser]

The thing just started to work. So I guess the problem was entirely on my end, sorry for wasting time.

[staghind]

I did not installed with linux compatability . Should I have no need for it.