Solved Resolution is way too low and nvidia-settings won't start

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badasahog

I just reinstalled FreeBSD, installed the graphics drivers (pkg install nvidia-driver), xorg, kde5 and sddm.

upon initiating startx I was greeted with an error that said "cannot run in framebuffer mode".

I don't know what this error means, but I was instructed to add the following text to /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/driver-inter.conf

Section "Device"
Indentifier "Card0"
Driver "scfb"
EndSection

This got startx to work and open kde.

The problem is that the resolution was extremely low.

I installed nvidia-settings, but it wouldn't open giving the error "unable to load info from any available system"

My card is a GeForce GTX 1050 ti
 
What is in .xinitrc?
I've run nvidia for years and have no clue what driver-inter.conf is.

Change "scfb" to nvidia. Do startx and see what happens.
 
badasahog said:
installed the graphics drivers (pkg install nvidia-driver)
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badasahog said:
Code: 
Section "Device" 
  Indentifier "Card0" 
  Driver "scfb" 
EndSection
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Replace the driver line with Driver "nvidia". Also sysrc kld_list+="nvidia-modeset".

Autodetection in Xorg works reasonably well. It unfortunately never detects the x11/nvidia-driver, so you have to instruct it to use the correct driver.
 
My .xinitrc:

xport LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export MM_CHARSET=UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
export BROWSER=firefox
setxkbmap gb
xset s off
xset -dpms
xset s noblank
export GVS_DISABLE_FUSE=1

exec ck-launch-session startplasma-x11
 
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