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On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Alex <alex323@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi. I just upgraded to revision 254271 and am experiencing a hang when slim
> starts. The monitor goes blank (no signal) and the fans increase in speed,
> suggesting high CPU usage. I have a GeForce GT 440. As suggested on the
> forums, I tried setting "machdep.disable_mtrrs=1" at the boot loader, but
> this did not help.
>
> Does anyone have any advice?
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>

I ran into a similar problem a few days ago. Applying the nvidia-driver
Makefile
patch from the follow-ups in the PR below and rebuilding the driver fixed
the
problem for me:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/181144