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ButterflyMelissa · 03-15-2015, 01:30 PM

hi all,
I try to compile (make) the nVidia driver for a GeForce 4200 in FreeBSD...the makefile fails with

Quote:

NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-96.43.23.tar.gz is spelled incorrectly

anyone able to help me?
Thanks
Thor

John VV · 03-15-2015, 02:56 PM

what about that tar ball name is spelled wrong ?
NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-96.43.23.tar.gz

that is a tarbal of the OLD unsupported 96 driver for the antique unsupported GForce 2 and 4 cards from 2001 to 2003

i should KNOW i have a Gforce 2 mx400 from 2001 on a old box

your card is a "GeForce4 Ti 4200" or a "GeForce4 4200 Go " ??????

mind you the 96 driver is restricted to the OLD xorg less that 1.12
newer versions of X11 CAN NOT !!! be used with the 96 driver

http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd...23-driver.html

extract the archive
cd into the newly created folder and run "make" as root
did you READ that makefile ?

Quote:

SUBDIR= src \
lib \
x11 \
doc

afterinstall:
@${.CURDIR}/scripts/setup.sh
@${.CURDIR}/scripts/linux.sh
@echo
@echo "Installation of the NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver"
@echo "96.43.23 for FreeBSD is now complete. You can now"
@echo "run the nvidia-xconfig utility to automatically update"
@echo "your X server configuration file. Please see the README"
@echo "for details if you wish to update your X configuration"
@echo "file manually."
@echo

setup: install

.include <bsd.subdir.mk>

ButterflyMelissa · 03-15-2015, 03:10 PM

so I'm kinda stuck...
I cannot generate a conf file...maybe it's due to that
edit - of course...X now is clever enough not to need a conf...
Edit 2 - THAT...was not the makefile I had...I'll reboot and try, hang on

John VV · 03-15-2015, 04:40 PM

the "Makefile" i posted is directly from the tarbal from the nvidia site ( the link i posted)

also your installed version of xorg HAS!! TO!! BE !!
1.12 or 1.11

1.13 or 1.14 or 1.15 will NOT work

also see the "additional "

Quote:

Note: If you have any questions or problems, you can send an email to freebsd-gfx-bugs@nvidia.com. When emailing freebsd-gfx-bugs@nvidia.com please attach an nvidia-bug-report.log, which is generated by running "nvidia-bug-report.sh".

Pre-Installation Notes: See the README for FreeBSD installation instructions, configuration information, and dependencies.

* If you are using FreeBSD 6.x, you will need to make sure that the 'compat5x' package is installed.
* The 'nvidia-settings' utility can be built from source (available from http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree8...6.43.23.tar.gz) if the binary included in the 96.43.23.tar.gz package doesn't work (e.g. due to a ports/ library version conflict)."

ButterflyMelissa · 03-18-2015, 12:27 PM

I"ll need to check that...oh well, the box works (there is a screen, and it lights up woohoo) and I'm not using any 3D on it anyway, would have been great...

John VV · 03-18-2015, 05:18 PM

i have a ScientificLinux 6 box with a downgraded X11 from 1.15 to 1.12
in order to use the 96 driver for the GF2 card
( or install Sl 5.11)

the same would be true for freebsd

downgrade and lock xorg

but for 2D

just make sure that the xorg.conf has "nv" as the driver
that is the OLD 2d only driver built into the kernel

ButterflyMelissa · 03-20-2015, 01:55 PM

...seems a lot of work for a box where no 3D work will be done with anyway, and now, the kernel needs a recompuile, because OSS does not support the current card...maybethis is way out of my league...