From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 3 21:53:35 2003 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 452C537B405 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 21:53:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.siliconlandmark.com (alpha.siliconlandmark.com [209.69.98.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 518BE43FAF for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 21:53:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from alpha.siliconlandmark.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by alpha.siliconlandmark.com (8.12.8/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h245rW5Z008498; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 00:53:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from localhost (andy@localhost) by alpha.siliconlandmark.com (8.12.8/8.12.7/Submit) with ESMTP id h245rW1w008495; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 00:53:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) X-Authentication-Warning: alpha.siliconlandmark.com: andy owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 00:53:32 -0500 (EST) From: Andre Guibert de Bruet To: walt Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nvidia module panics today's kernel [03-03-03] In-Reply-To: <3E64335A.60408@myrealbox.com> Message-ID: <20030304005059.M59207@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> References: <3E64335A.60408@myrealbox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, walt wrote: > My mini 'disaster' of earlier today was caused by the nvidia kernel > module being autoloaded at boot, which causes an immediate kernel panic. > > The newest kernel seems fine until I try to load the module manually, > at which time I still get the kernel panic even after re-compiling > the module. > > Maxime, it looks like the nvidia module will need to be sculpted one > more time. :-( If you really need to use your workstation, you can try the open source nv XFree86 driver. It's not as fast as the nVidia detonator driver and it's not accelerated, but you can at least use X11 at a reasonable resolution and color depth. Regards, > Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant > > Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message