Date: 28 Jan 2003 11:25:22 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: James Pole <james.pole@paradise.net.nz> Cc: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with NVIDIA kernel driver with recent kernel Message-ID: <1043715322.85849.6.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> 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>
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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
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