NVIDIA Legacy cards

[ryon]

I have a NVIDIA Riva TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro graphic card. This is apparently a "legacy GPU".

The NVIDIA website says I will need a 1.0-71xx series driver, but there is no such PBI, and it appears that none is being written.

The 9746 and the 8774 PBI's will not work. Am I out of luck?

[dracheflieger]

Welcome to the forums ryon. You are not out of luck but you will need your sources and the ports tree. Read chapter 5 of the Quick Guide on your desktop to see how.

Once you get those, you can install it from the ports tree. You will need to open konsole, su to root and cd usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver-7184 && make install clean && reboot and that will install it.

[ryon]

That was sure easy, thanks!

How do I check what I just did?

"sysctl -a" shows:

hw.nvidia.agp.card.rates: 4x 2x 1x
hw.nvidia.agp.card.fw: not supported
hw.nvidia.agp.card.sba: not supported
hw.nvidia.agp.card.registers: 0x1f000007:0x00000000
hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled
hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: n/a (unused)
hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: n/a (disabled)
hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: n/a (disabled)
hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: n/a (disabled)
hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA FreeBSD x86 Kernel Module 1.0-7184 Tue Aug 1 19:48:41 PDT 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.VideoEnhancement: 0
hw.nvidia.registry.RmLogonRC: 1
hw.nvidia.cards.0.model: RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro
hw.nvidia.cards.0.irq: 11
hw.nvidia.cards.0.vbios: ??.??.??.??.??
hw.nvidia.cards.0.type: AGP

Does this look reasonable?

[dracheflieger]

Looks like soup to me ;-)

You might try glxgears at the command line.

[jtappin]

Welcome to the forums ryon. You are not out of luck but you will need your sources and the ports tree. Read chapter 5 of the Quick Guide on your desktop to see how.

Once you get those, you can install it from the ports tree. You will need to open konsole, su to root and cd usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver-7184 && make install clean && reboot and that will install it.

Should this still work the same?

I've just installed PCBSD on a machine with an Nvidia Fx5200 -- which I know needs the 173 drivers.

I did select both ports and src at install.

However when I try to make the dirver I get:

[james@amarice] /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver-173# make install clean
===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
===> License NVIDIA accepted by the user
===> Found saved configuration for nvidia-driver-173.14.31
=> NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-173.14.31.tar.gz is not in /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver-173/../nvidia-driver/distinfo.
=> Either /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver-173/../nvidia-driver/distinfo is out of date, or
=> NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-173.14.31.tar.gz is spelled incorrectly.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver-173.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver-173.

N.B. This was the second try, hence the saved configuration.

Is the port broken or have I missed something?