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Ive just installed the freebsd nvidia driver from the tar.gz,but there is no file to configure in /etc/X11 dir ,I can not seem to locate the /etc/X11/XF86Config to edit....
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  1. 03-04-2006 #1
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    /etc/X11

    Ive just installed the freebsd nvidia driver from the tar.gz,but there is no file to configure in /etc/X11 dir ,I can not seem to locate the /etc/X11/XF86Config to edit.
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  2. 03-04-2006 #2
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    The file might be called xorg.conf
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  3. 03-05-2006 #3
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    Well the xorg.conf was in the /root, and this is what it looks like,

    Code:
    # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder24.nvidia.com)  Wed Dec 14
17:27:16 PST 2005


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath         "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
    FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

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

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psm0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

        #DisplaySize      300   230     # mm
 ### Uncomment if you don't want to default to DDC:
#       HorizSync    30.0 - 69.0
#       VertRefresh  48.0 - 160.0
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "DEL"
    ModelName      "DELL M770"
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"

        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "SWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "HWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoAccel"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShadowFB"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "UseFBDev"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Rotate"                    # [<str>]
        #Option     "VideoKey"                  # <i>
        #Option     "FlatPanel"                 # [<bool>]
        #Option     "FPDither"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "CrtcNumber"                # <i>
        #Option     "FPScale"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "FPTweak"                   # <i>
    Identifier     "Card0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "nVidia Corporation"
    BoardName      "NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440]"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Card0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       4
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       8
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       15
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       16
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection
    That seems ok to me ,But a glxgears output is this,

    Code:
    Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
glxgears: Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual.


    I had this problem on my gentoo box but i simply just re-emerged the glx driver,I'm not sure how to go about it on freebsd 6.0.
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  4. 03-13-2006 #4
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    All you need to do is
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    # cp /root/xorg.conf /etc/X11/
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  5. 03-22-2006 #5
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    I know this was posted a while ago, but eh...you may also want to add some default resolutions to your xorg.conf
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  6. 04-04-2006 #6
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    You can also install the driver from ports. The nvidia driver and settings packages are in /usr/ports/x11/.
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