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Date:      Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:53:03 +0900
From:      Srot BULL <pwd8jmr22w@me.point.ne.jp>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SMP in the Kernel and NVIDIA Driver
Message-ID:  <40F5E37F.4090805@me.point.ne.jp>
In-Reply-To: <40F32C05.8000102@me.point.ne.jp>
References:  <40F28CAA.902@me.point.ne.jp> <20040712152805.GE58753@ns1.tcbug.org> <40F32C05.8000102@me.point.ne.jp>

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Sorry for replying to my own post...I just thought maybe someone
might be interested in this thread...Read below on my developments...

> Josh Paetzel wrote:
> 
>> I have a SMP system w/ Nvidia card.  Trying to enable SMP while using 
>> the FreeBSD Nvidia drivers causes the system to lock up when starting 
>> X.  If you look in the archives there are other people experiencing 
>> the same issue. 
>> My workaround is to use an ATI card. :-/
> 
> 
> Thanks for the reply...
> Well, I will try to re-compile my kernel, enabling SMP and maybe try 
> X.org's "nv" driver...If everything works, I will look in the archives 
> (funny thing, I was looking at the archives about my Sound Card before 
> sending the email, but I forgot to check about SMP and Nvidia 
> Driver)...and maybe I will find some clues on how to use FreeBSD's 
> NVidia Driver and enable SMP as well...if nothing comes out, maybe I 
> will have to use "nv" driver...and wait if someone succeeds in using the 
> FreeBSD NVidia Driver...

Well, like I said above...I tried to enable SMP in my kernel and used
Xorg's "nv" video driver instead of the native FreeBSD NVidia
driver in the ports...everything works fine now...my systems detects 2
logical CPU's (by the way, I need to admit this first, I still could not
comprehend what Hyperthreading is...I only wanted to enable it because I
bought an Intel CPU that supports it...maybe I will devote some more
time on reading Intel's HP on HTT).
I said everything works fine, but I seem to notice that my CPU fan is 
having a hard time...I am not that worried yet but maybe I will try to 
search google and the archives on SMP's connection with the CPU fan...
That's it thanks for the help/advice/hints...

Srot BULL



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