FreeBSD 5.3-Release & Nvidia 6113

[tabmow]

I installed the nvidia-driver port with complete success and went on to change Driver "nvidia" and commented out Load "dri" in my xorg.conf - I find that i had no problems in the xorg log no errors but when i run glxinfo or glxgears i get errors saying that it can't find a rgb buffered visual, i also get messages about agp.ko so i recompiled a new kernel without device agp and i still get the same problem. I had this very same problem when trying to install the nvidia driver's on mandrake 10.1 official as well. Does anyone know why this is happening? I followed the document to the point to no prevail. The card is a GF4 ti4600. Any help will be hugely appreciated.

Thankyou.

[erek]

Originally Posted by tabmow

I installed the nvidia-driver port with complete success and went on to change Driver "nvidia" and commented out Load "dri" in my xorg.conf - I find that i had no problems in the xorg log no errors but when i run glxinfo or glxgears i get errors saying that it can't find a rgb buffered visual, i also get messages about agp.ko so i recompiled a new kernel without device agp and i still get the same problem. I had this very same problem when trying to install the nvidia driver's on mandrake 10.1 official as well. Does anyone know why this is happening? I followed the document to the point to no prevail. The card is a GF4 ti4600. Any help will be hugely appreciated.

Thankyou.

make sure you have

Load "glx"

you don't need GLcore...
in your video card device section try adding

Option "NvAgp" "1"

[tabmow]

I tried what you said and i still have no luck. I get this message coming up to the console: NVRM: Detecting agp.ko - aborting Nvidia AGP Setup!

I am going to include my xorg.conf and log for troubleshooting, i don't know what else to do though.

Thanks in advance ;oP

[zander]

You're seeing two different problems, both of which are easily solvable. The first is that you're requesting the use of NvAGP, with FreeBSD's AGPGART driver present; the easiest fix for this is to add hint.agp.0.disabled="1" to /boot/device.hints (make sure you reboot). The second problem is that you're running X at depth 8; to address this, add DefaultDepth 24 to the Screen section of your Xorg configuration file.

[tabmow]

Thanks heaps mate.
Your a legend!

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Woohoo!

[JJ test]

Zander's fix for adding the line to device.hints didn't work for me. I rebooted but I still get the same error. This nVidia driver installer DOESN'T WORK for my expensive video card. I can't do my work! I want to disable agp.ko by default from the installer please!

How can I do this? Please help.

[zander]

The device.hints approach to disabling agp.ko only works with recent (past FreeBSD 5.2.1, e.g. FreeBSD 5.3) kernels; on systems using earlier kernels, the kernel needs to be rebuilt w/o agp.ko support (this is beyond the Makefile's capabilities).

[JJ test]

Thanks Zander. Yes I'm using FreeBSD 4.10. I'll look into rebuilding it without agp.ko support.

Again thanks very much for your quick and kind response.