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On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk>
wrote:

> >By virtue of the fact that kldstat(8) returns nvidia. You
> >can be assured that linux has already been loaded, or
> >rather, that linux is already available. Which suggests to
> >me that it is already part of your kernel. dmesg(8)
> >(/var.run/dmesg.boot) might well reveal that, for you.
> >Perhaps even in /var/log/messages.
>
> $ grep -i linux /var/run/dmesg.boot
> $
>
> What does this tell me?
>

That the string linux doesn't appear in /var/run/dmesg.boot

I don't understand the fixation on this module.  It's clearly loaded.  Your
problem lies elsewhere.

-- 
Adam