Re: NVidia driver on 6.1-PRERELEASE causes panic
Eric Anderson <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile |
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John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday 27 April 2006 14:42, Eric Anderson wrote: >> 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. >>> >>> Does anyone have any hints on this? >> Looks like this might be a conflict with acpi_video. Is that to be >> expected? > > Yes. It does conflict in 6.x. That will be fixed in 7.0 though it > might require an update to the nvidia driver to make it play nice. > Bummer - ok.. Thanks for the confirmation. Will that get trickled down to 6.x ever? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"