Re: NVidia driver on 6.1-PRERELEASE causes panic
John Baldwin <[email protected]>
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On Thursday 27 April 2006 10:00 pm, Eric Anderson wrote: > 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? Probably not as it would probably be considered an ABI breakage. -- John Baldwin <[email protected]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"