From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 29 13:41:03 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE4311065670 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:41:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from minimarmot@gmail.com) Received: from ag-out-0708.google.com (ag-out-0708.google.com [72.14.246.251]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5D7A8FC1C for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:41:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from minimarmot@gmail.com) Received: by ag-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id 5so10258905agb.7 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:41:03 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=Gy5cB5xDpgVxteYULue1NrGvTPdS5iRWPED9RSN7K9I=; b=mcxo0PTD/IJIKiToJtllfIiio7AIq2BAvvIUIDUSps0N8PmvQReJV9DtWiiI/GH0F/BaSFVanmNM6nlRG45x1r9a4+FqdO4BzY0a8l67fJ7NsPBMexgEBsLEqun4g6hh83pWgf7ElkOTWh1saCbxFtzI+M4AUG/7orueh0SyQkk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=YOp6FxdiX5Fj55k3w8kYQ8wNqE6vfGPayDc/G5YEu7byEKQltu766nXCxGF5kvIJORgKC5Va78J5+BPLhZlWQcRFw/gdvWBasP0kY+/UX+0iqBIdU1DcTnJsHfgZTCLPrzu2GOGl9Eze/Oun8YW4LVbfqwfRkw1I5dxuRpnWasY= Received: by 10.100.137.11 with SMTP id k11mr19274983and.73.1204291540155; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:25:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.100.248.5 with HTTP; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:25:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <47d0403c0802290525l11dab3f7gac5601f5dd01bde3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:25:40 -0500 From: "Ben Kaduk" To: "Chuck Robey" In-Reply-To: <47C7294E.9000804@chuckr.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <47C7294E.9000804@chuckr.org> Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers Subject: Re: problem with ldconfig X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:41:04 -0000 Hi Chuck, On 2/28/08, Chuck Robey wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > [snip RAID/loader interaction] > Well, the other thing that's come up, I can't get my nvidia driver to work > along with xorg. It used to show it's arrival both in kldstat, AND also > because, in /dev, a file named nvidiactl would show up. This has stopped > happening. I had been using the old version 100.14.19, and when I checked > the nvidia website, it seems a couple of newer versions had appeared, so I > downloaded and built version 169.12. Don't ask me why the crazy version > numbering, I looked around for something like a changelog, but had no luck. > Anyhow, updating to the newer version wasn't too hard, but didn't show any > change. Consulting the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file, even though kldstat says > that nvidia.ko is loaded, it never shows a /dev/nvidiactl, and the log file > says clearly that it never finds the Nvidia kernel module. Using it with > Vesa lets me limp, so I do that, but howcome? The nvidia kernel module now needs to be loaded at boot-time; it won't supercede the default vga support if loaded later. cat nvidia_load="YES"" >> /boot/loader.conf -Ben Kaduk > > OK, I'm not giving my ldconfig problem to you folks, its quite likely its a > FreeBSD-current problem, so let those folks handle that one. > > Boy, I feel like the little boy who cried wolf! > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFHxylOz62J6PPcoOkRAudcAJ9ex65oZUoh+0gf/7WcpNi6KhwsxwCgje63 > m4GwVJZrkoU3McfHK1NAArk= > =wLpy > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >