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From: Alexander Best <alexbestms@wwu.de>
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Subject: Re: nvidia module startup
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you might want to try `nextboot -o '-v' -k kernel` to enable verbose booting
during the next boot. maybe this will reveal your problem.

also be sure to check out the freebsd section of the nvidia forum [1] to see
if somebody reported a similar issue.

[1] http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=47

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Alexander Best