From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 27 16:55:46 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58CED37B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:55:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C76A43F43 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:55:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.4/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0S0tPJF010398; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:25:25 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) X-Authentication-Warning: cain.gsoft.com.au: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] claimed to be [127.0.0.1] Subject: Re: Problem with NVIDIA kernel driver with recent kernel From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: James Pole Cc: Paul Mather , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <1043714433.96161.14.camel@localhost> References: <20030127204647.GA373@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <00b501c2c647$eeb5ba60$0e0c32d4@niked> <20030127230130.GA3246@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <1043714433.96161.14.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1043715322.85849.6.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.0 Date: 28 Jan 2003 11:25:22 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -0.7 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_03_05 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 11:10, James Pole wrote: > Do you *have* to have OpenGL acceleration? > > If you don't, just simply use the open-source 'nv' driver for XFree86. > It is much, much more stable than anything NVIDIA has to offer. The only > downside is that you have to use software OpenGL... ... and it's slower for 2D as well. A work around could be to load it in /etc/rc.local or something.. I had a similar problem with a sound driver - it wouldn't load in the loader, but would load after the kernel booted OK. I think it turned out to be a module not registering properly but I'm not 100% sure. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message