X fail to start - PC-BSD Forums

AnbuBlack · #1 08-10-2012, 07:59 PM

X server fail to start after update from nvidia-driver-295.59 to 295.71; I have to downgrade back to 295.59. This might happen because mesa-demos also fail to upgrade from mesa-demos-7.6.1 to 7.6.1_1?

AnbuBlack · #2 08-14-2012, 09:35 PM

I try to solve the problem in other way, I've downloaded the newest driver from nvidia site and I followed the install instructions:

Quote:

Installation instructions: Once you have downloaded the driver, change to the directory containing the driver package and install the driver by running, as root, tar xzf NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-304.37.tar.gz && cd NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-304.37 & make install

and receive the next error:

Code:

===> x11 (install)
===> x11/driver (install)
===> x11/extension (install)
===> x11/bin (install)
===> x11/man (install)
===> doc (install)
ERROR: Failed to load the NVIDIA module!
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/local/src/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-304.37

This doesn't work so I modify the nvidia-driver port makefile to the version just I downloaded (304.37).

Code:

DISTVERSION?= 304.37

and run

Code:

 # make makesum

The download and install of the driver went well, but after restart X still not started. Here is the log of errors received.

Xorg.0.log.zip

Kernel version:

Code:

#uname -r -m -s
FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE amd64

The system sources are synchronized with the kernel version (STABLE).Can someone give me an advice to solve this issue? Thank you in advance!

windscape · #3 08-14-2012, 11:05 PM

Hi,

It sounds like you've modified so much of the base FreeBSD OS that it may be impossible to repair. The reason that X cannot start is because it cannot initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. I suggest either reinstalling PC-BSD and don't modify the base OS or perhaps seek some advice on the FreeBSD forums since it sounds to me like you now have more of a FreeBSD system than a PC-BSD one.

AnbuBlack · #4 08-15-2012, 01:43 PM

First, PC-BSD is a cosmeticised FreeBSD and second X work normal with 295.59 driver. The problems appear when I try to update from 295.59 to 295.71 (which exist in ports) but after that update, X failed so I thought it's a problem with the driver from ports; then I try that artifice to install 304.37 from nvidia site and X failed again. Maybe I will find some answers on FreeBSD forum. Thanks for your time reading this post, have a nice day.

AnbuBlack · #5 08-15-2012, 08:27 PM

I solved this issue by update to 9.1-PRERELEASE, then rebuild world and kernel and now the nvidia-driver 304.37 is installed in my system.
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