From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 30 18:37:15 2011 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 C7CD3106566C for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:37:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx22.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A0038FC0A for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:37:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 8866 invoked by uid 399); 30 Jan 2011 18:37:13 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO doug-optiplex.ka9q.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 30 Jan 2011 18:37:13 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4D45AFD8.9070507@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 10:37:12 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110129 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dhesser@accima.com References: <20110128124312.a837f288.dhesser@accima.com> <20110129.064924.078.1@DEV> <20110129123530.0f4586d8.dhesser@accima.com> <4D447B26.3030100@FreeBSD.org> <20110129180056.ca03c0f9.dhesser@accima.com> In-Reply-To: <20110129180056.ca03c0f9.dhesser@accima.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVIDIA (port) driver fails to create /dev/nvidactl; 8.2Prerelease 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: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:37:15 -0000 On 01/29/2011 18:00, Duane H. Hesser wrote: > I realize that questions such as 'have you kldloaded..." > are asked in a helpful spirit, and I don't expect you to be unduly > impressed by my resume, but perhaps you will understand if I find > such questions mildly insulting... No, I don't understand that at all. If you've read the lists as often as you claim to you'd know a few things: 1. These problems usually ARE something simple, and if the OP doesn't cover the simple bases, those questions will be asked. 2. The nvidia driver is quite popular, so a widespread failure of the driver on a -stable branch would have gotten a lot of notice. 3. The right list to post your report to is freebsd-stable@, not -hackers. Now please understand, I am not *intending* to be insulting, and as someone who has struggled with the nvidia driver myself I'd like to see you get your problem resolved. In any case, good luck. Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/