nvidia driver fails on FreeBSD after port revision

[imoore]

Hi, I've been using the nvidia driver on my FreeBSD system since 5.21-RELEASE with a GeForce4 without any problems.
Currently I'm running 5.4-RELEASE.
A revision of the nvidia-driver port came out a couple of days ago & I rebuilt the port using portupgrade.
Now X refuses to start. On the console, I get the following error on running startx:
NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidiactl (Unknown error: 999).
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! Please ensure
(EE) NVIDIA(0): that there is a supported NVIDIA GPU in this system, and
(EE) NVIDIA(0): that the NVIDIA device files have been created properly.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Please consult the NVIDIA README for details.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

The Xorg log file is pretty long, so here are some extracts:
5.4-RELEASE-p8 #0: Sat Oct 22 12:38:08 CST 2005 root@daemon.foo.lan:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/IAN i386
Build Date: 11 November 2005
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: Fri Nov 11 20:29:49 2005
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) ServerLayout "Simple Layout"
(**) |-->Screen "Screen 1" (0)
(**) | |-->Monitor "DiamondView 1995"
(**) | |-->Device "NVidia GeForce4"

<snip>

(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.7676
Module class: XFree86 Video Driver
(II) LoadModule: "mouse"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o
(II) Module mouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.4
(II) LoadModule: "kbd"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/kbd_drv.o
(II) Module kbd: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.4
(II) NVIDIA X Driver 1.0-7676 Fri Jul 29 13:32:37 PDT 2005
(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all NVIDIA GPUs
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
(--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
(--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found

<snip>

(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "NoLogo" "True"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "NvAGP" "1"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "IgnoreEDID" "true"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "RenderAccel" "True"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "CursorShadow" "true"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "CursorShadowAlpha" "75"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "1"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling experimental RENDER acceleration
(**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling cursor shadow
(**) NVIDIA(0): Cursor shadow alpha = 75
(**) NVIDIA(0): Use of NVIDIA internal AGP requested
(**) NVIDIA(0): Ignoring EDIDs
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! Please ensure
(EE) NVIDIA(0): that there is a supported NVIDIA GPU in this system, and
(EE) NVIDIA(0): that the NVIDIA device files have been created properly.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Please consult the NVIDIA README for details.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

The nvidia.ko module is loaded:
% kldstat -n nvidia
Id Refs Address Size Name
14 1 0xc2854000 37f000 nvidia.ko

The device files are present in /dev:
daemon:~ % ll /dev/nv*
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 8, 0x48000000 Nov 11 20:27 /dev/nvidia0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 0x480000ff Nov 11 20:27 /dev/nvidiactl

According to the ports diff pages, the update to the port (from 1.0.7676 to 1.0.7676_1), was the addition of the line:
${REINPLACE_CMD} -E 's/(extension).*/\1/ ; /bin/d' ${WRKSRC}/x11/Makefile

I tried commenting that out in the makefile and rebuilding the port, which should have made it exactly the same as before, but it made no difference.

I can't find any mention of a 999 error or anything that might help me, so hopefully someone can suggest something!

Cheers,
Ian

[zander]

Looking at recent activity, the only change made in the last few days was the removal of `nvidia-settings` from the nvidia-driver port, in favor of a natively built version (in the sense that it's built for whichever happens to be the most current FreeBSD version installed). Are there any interesting messages in the `dmesg` output? Does the problem persist if you install using the official NVIDIA FreeBSD graphics driver package?

[imoore]

Originally Posted by zander

Looking at recent activity, the only change made in the last few days was the removal of `nvidia-settings` from the nvidia-driver port, in favor of a natively built version (in the sense that it's built for whichever happens to be the most current FreeBSD version installed). Are there any interesting messages in the `dmesg` output?

No, nothing except the nvidia kernel module being loaded.

Originally Posted by zander

Does the problem persist if you install using the official NVIDIA FreeBSD graphics driver package?

It won't build - complains about me running FreeBSD 6!
% sudo make install
===> src
@ -> /usr/src/sys
machine -> /usr/src/sys/i386/include
awk -f @/tools/makeobjops.awk @/kern/device_if.m -h
awk -f @/tools/makeobjops.awk @/kern/bus_if.m -h
awk -f @/tools/makeobjops.awk @/dev/pci/pci_if.m -h
awk -f @/tools/vnode_if.awk @/kern/vnode_if.src -p
awk -f @/tools/vnode_if.awk @/kern/vnode_if.src -q
awk -f @/tools/vnode_if.awk @/kern/vnode_if.src -h
cc -O -pipe -march=athlon-xp -I/src -DNV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 -DNV_MINOR_VERSION=0 -DNV_PATCHLEVEL=7676 -D__KERNEL__ -UDEBUG -U_DEBUG -DNDEBUG -O -fno-common -fno-unit-at-a-time -minline-all-stringops -Werror -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE -nostdinc -I- -I/src -I. -I@ -I@/contrib/altq -I@/../include -I/usr/include -finline-limit=8000 -fno-common -mno-align-long-strings -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow -mno-sse -mno-sse2 -ffreestanding -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -std=c99 -c nvidia_ctl.c
In file included from nvidia_ctl.c:14:
./nv-freebsd.h:25:2: #error This driver does not support FreeBSD 6.x/-CURRENT!
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/home/imoore/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-7676/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-7676/src.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/home/imoore/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-7676/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-7676


No - I'm not running 6.x!
%uname -a:
FreeBSD daemon.foo.lan 5.4-RELEASE-p8 FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p8 #0: Sat Oct 22 12:38:08 CST 2005 root@daemon.foo.lan:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/IAN i386

Cheers,
Ian