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Date:      Wed, 25 Aug 2004 19:14:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jorge Aldana <jorge@salk.edu>
To:        "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA1 and Nvidia Driver
Message-ID:  <20040825190700.G2519@merckx.snl.salk.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20040825160814.X81115@vanbasten.snl.salk.edu>
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Ok, I answered my own question, on upgrading to the new nvidia driver did the 
trick. I used the driver direct from nvidia:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_1.0-6113.html

Followed the README and all is well, the downloaded driver also added the 
nvidia_load="YES" line to loader.conf, so far only tested KDE 3 and its working.

Jorge

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Jorge Aldana wrote:

> Ok, I got 5.3-BETA1 going thanks to all the tips I've seen so far, I finally 
> got it to boot after following the advice to add "device apic" and figuring 
> out the new sound device setup, I did remove the debugging options, not sure 
> if that was a factor but I trimmed a bit and luckily it booted after removing 
> that and adding apic.
>
> Now I am trying to load the nvidia driver on boot up and it panics if I 
> attempt to load it at boot up. Anyone else gotten this far yet? Do I need to 
> upgrade to the new Nvidia driver I've been reading about? I've kept the 
> loader.conf as follows (boots with this not sure if any of this is still 
> needed):
>
> linux_load="YES"
> agp_load="YES"
>
> Had nvidia_load="YES" but that crashed it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jorge
>
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