From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 17 9:42:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.au.itouchnet.net (e0-apn-fw1.au.itouchnet.net [203.42.71.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AD0537B405 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:42:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by mx1.au.itouchnet.net with scanned_ok (Exim 3.33 #18) id 16RGZo-000D7q-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 04:43:48 +1100 Received: from athomson.prv.au.itouchnet.net ([192.168.13.55]) by mx1.au.itouchnet.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #18) id 16RGZn-000D7A-00; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 04:43:47 +1100 Subject: Re: kldload nvidia From: ajt To: Gary Jennejohn Cc: Kenneth Culver , Daniel Leal , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200201171713.g0HHDiX62736@peedub.jennejohn.org> References: <200201171713.g0HHDiX62736@peedub.jennejohn.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.1 Date: 18 Jan 2002 05:47:29 +1200 Message-Id: <1011289649.91397.77.camel@athomson.prv.au.itouchnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Checked: This message has been scanned for any virusses and unauthorized attachments. X-iScan: Version $Id: iScan,v 1.31 2001/01/18 09:25:45 rip Exp $ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Where's everyone getting this nvidia driver from??? I would happily install freebsd on my laptop but it's got a gforce go and requires the nvidia drivers to work.. what's the go?? ajt On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 05:13, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > Kenneth Culver writes: > > ACtually the way this is SUPPOSED to be done is to edit /boot/loader.conf > > and add a line that says: > > > > nvidia_load="YES" > > > > I'd say this is better because then the nvidia card is probed at bootup > > and all it's resources are allocated the same way the rest of the cards on > > the system are done. That said I'm not sure it makes that much difference > > :-) > > > > Ken > > > > Yes, I know, but the reason I recommended /etc/rc.local is that it > will work on even older versions of FBSD without /boot/loader.conf. > That's I wrote "most generic". > > --- > Gary Jennejohn / garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message