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Date:      Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:15:20 -0500 (EST)
From:      Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org>
To:        Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org>
Cc:        Daniel Leal <dleal@webvolution.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: kldload nvidia 
Message-ID:  <20020117161448.D63432-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org>
In-Reply-To: <200201171713.g0HHDiX62736@peedub.jennejohn.org>

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Well, that's kinda a moot point because this driver won't work on anything
below 4.x, and as far as I know, 4.x has always had the loader.conf.

Ken

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, 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
>
>


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