From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 26 02:14:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DE3416A4CE for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 02:14:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sherryl.salk.edu (sherryl.snl.salk.edu [198.202.70.151]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAF0043D55 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 02:14:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jorge@salk.edu) Received: from merckx.snl.salk.edu (merckx.snl.salk.edu [198.202.70.90]) by sherryl.salk.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i7Q2EUco083063 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 19:14:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 19:14:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Jorge Aldana X-X-Sender: jorge@merckx.snl.salk.edu To: "current@freebsd.org" In-Reply-To: <20040825160814.X81115@vanbasten.snl.salk.edu> Message-ID: <20040825190700.G2519@merckx.snl.salk.edu> References: <20040825204757.GD35529@ip.net.ua> <42278.1093467451@critter.freebsd.dk> <20040825212153.GA60718@ip.net.ua> <412D0388.9060201@root.org> <20040825214921.GA62984@ip.net.ua> <412D0E04.8040701@root.org> <20040825160814.X81115@vanbasten.snl.salk.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA1 and Nvidia Driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 02:14:31 -0000 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >