Re: NVidia driver on 6.1-PRERELEASE causes panic
Stephen Montgomery-Smith <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile |
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| Organization | University of Missouri |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Eric Anderson wrote: > I'm trying to set up a new laptop (Dell Latitude 820), which has an > NVidia Quadro 110 video card. > > I've built and installed the nvidia-driver port, and it loads the module > successfully. However, I'm not getting any newly created devices in > /dev/, so Xorg won't start (complains about not having the kernel module > installed, although it is, I presume because the /dev/nvidiactl device > isn't being created). > > Upon kldunloading the nvidia module, my machine panics and dumps, so I > have some cores lying around. Just to reply to a less important aspect of your question - I find that kldunloading the nvidia module frequently causes panics on many different computers. Also I have had trouble getting nvidia drivers to work on more modern hardware. The solution that works for me is to wait until nvidia upgrade their software and/or to wait until the computer manufacturer updates their BIOS. One of these always fixed the problem for me, but it did require waiting about 6 months to a year. In the mean time, have you tried the nv driver? It might not give cool 3D acceleration, but it may well work. Stephen _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"