Upgrade from 96.4301 to 100.14.19

[Agrapha]

Hi all,
This problem is due to my configuration and not the new driver. I upgraded my video card from a 6000 system with worked well to my 8600gts because of a motherboard issue. New motherboard had PCIE socket.

I'm running an up-to-date Freebsd6.2 on a athlon64 system. My xorg.conf and nvidia driver also needed to be rebuilt. I tried to use the previous 96.43.01 but it continued to fail not finding the gpu. Saw the stickey about 100.14.19 updated info got the 8600gts so I downloaded the new driver and thats where my story starts: I didn't remove the old driver because I didn't know how. Xorg.0.log says:

Build Date: 02 December 2007 11:11:46PM

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to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Dec 8 13:30:03 2007
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(EE) Failed to load module "glx" (module does not exist, 0)
(II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X
(EE) NVIDIA(0): log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X
(EE) NVIDIA(0): server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX module. If
(EE) NVIDIA(0): you continue to encounter problems, Please try
(EE) NVIDIA(0): reinstalling the NVIDIA driver.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

the xorg.conf says

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
EndSection

can someone help me untangle my mess?

[Agrapha]

On thing I forgot to mention. Errors include:
saint# Dec 8 12:40:45 saint su: agrapha to root on /dev/ttyp0
NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 96.43.01, but
NVRM: this kernel module has the version 100.14.03. Please
NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
NVRM: components have the same version.

[Agrapha]

Ok I got this running but I'm getting an error which I don't understand. Can someone tell me what the ABI module is?

> startx
xauth: creating new authority file /home/bduke/.serverauth.3325


X.Org X Server 1.4.0
Release Date: 5 September 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE i386
Current Operating System: FreeBSD saint.blue.inc 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007 root@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386
Build Date: 02 December 2007 11:11:46PM

Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Dec 15 16:04:24 2007
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(EE) NVIDIA(0): ============= WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING =============
(EE) NVIDIA(0): This server has a video driver ABI version of 2.0 but this
(EE) NVIDIA(0): driver is designed to work with versions before 2.0.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Please check http://www.nvidia.com/ for driver updates or
(EE) NVIDIA(0): downgrade to an X server with a supported driver ABI.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): ================================================== =========
(II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
(EE) NVIDIA(0): This video driver ABI is not supported.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Use the -ignoreABI option to override this check.

Fatal server error:
AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0

X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

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[Ofer80]

When we undate out systems, we don't have troubles like this...