From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 27 18:47:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48CE716A403 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:47:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu (math.missouri.edu [128.206.49.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB19A43D48 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:47:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from [128.206.49.166] (cauchy.math.missouri.edu [128.206.49.166]) by math.missouri.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k3RIlEMu048249; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:47:14 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Message-ID: <445111B2.7040708@math.missouri.edu> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:47:14 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith Organization: University of Missouri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060422 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Anderson References: <4450BA10.6020007@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <4450BA10.6020007@centtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-104.1 required=3.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00, USER_IN_WHITELIST autolearn=ham version=3.1.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10) on math.missouri.edu X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88/1426/Wed Apr 26 13:03:01 2006 on math.missouri.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVidia driver on 6.1-PRERELEASE causes panic X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:47:21 -0000 Eric Anderson wrote: > I'm trying to set up a new laptop (Dell Latitude 820), which has an > NVidia Quadro 110 video card. > > I've built and installed the nvidia-driver port, and it loads the module > successfully. However, I'm not getting any newly created devices in > /dev/, so Xorg won't start (complains about not having the kernel module > installed, although it is, I presume because the /dev/nvidiactl device > isn't being created). > > Upon kldunloading the nvidia module, my machine panics and dumps, so I > have some cores lying around. Just to reply to a less important aspect of your question - I find that kldunloading the nvidia module frequently causes panics on many different computers. Also I have had trouble getting nvidia drivers to work on more modern hardware. The solution that works for me is to wait until nvidia upgrade their software and/or to wait until the computer manufacturer updates their BIOS. One of these always fixed the problem for me, but it did require waiting about 6 months to a year. In the mean time, have you tried the nv driver? It might not give cool 3D acceleration, but it may well work. Stephen