From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 8 18:10:01 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9177537B401 for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2003 18:10:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from himinbjorg.ttsg.com (207-237-196-31.c3-0.nyr-ubr3.nyr.ny.cable.rcn.com [207.237.196.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9708743FA3 for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2003 18:10:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tuc@ttsg.com) Received: (from tuc@localhost) by himinbjorg.ttsg.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id h5919p4W004718; Sun, 8 Jun 2003 21:09:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tuc) From: Tuc Message-Id: <200306090109.h5919p4W004718@himinbjorg.ttsg.com> To: Jeff.Blaufuss@ndsu.nodak.edu (Jeff Blaufuss) Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 21:09:51 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <3EE3DDF5.2070203@ndsu.nodak.edu> from "Jeff Blaufuss" at Jun 08, 2003 08:08:05 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: loading the official nvidia driver at startup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 01:10:01 -0000 > > I recently installed the official nvidia driver (version 1.0.3203) from > the ports collection my FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE machine. Is there a way to > load the nvidia.ko module at startup? I've tried putting > nvidia_load="YES" in my /boot/loader.conf file, which was suggested in a > message I found in the archives of freebsd-questions, but it didn't work > for me. The module doesn't get loaded, and I still have to run "kldload > nvidia" to get things to work. > Do you have : linux_load="YES" nvidia_load="YES" I think you need the Linux loaded there too. Tuc/TTSG Internet Services, Inc.