From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 26 18:53:22 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB8BB106566C for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:53:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: from el-out-1112.google.com (el-out-1112.google.com [209.85.162.180]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9222A8FC20 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:53:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id r27so759384ele.13 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:53:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=XKLDtTs048kp2PB0yNPoZ8ACBFWEq3Wv6kKj23vorK0=; b=uvlZ+3PLASzGlvKcaYW7MkkYcsbKO3qsXO+eerr+OUlI8RM0ZPkiQ5Jhxle4xwZVCQ zG6Yp9j2lrhMwL4nGD3XMpPiwoMPXcR4RRFadVg7q4A4vNkfb54BM0qKIY+6ffjRPt7Q 5EpcJqxd7MrSBPk8Iq4ufHXn4PUZX/jVhQil4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Q01jvmgd75aYm4CXMpkIFCpERMhLIv9EaeDRmSS2q3fwcBJAjGAQjKb+KRY2gaQdz4 LZzLjxr7BrHAeCQuuYe0eMOy6whNhOzudE5gGtREr+S2uSqJczTmeB2J1ctp3M/57qFa J/+8ZcNlECkK3VvJcCS1yZPEY+8+95bT1T0rA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.90.91.9 with SMTP id o9mr834258agb.48.1235674401948; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:53:21 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <1235668962.2224.72.camel@strangepork.mintel.co.uk> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:53:21 -0800 Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0902261053w5a233849s898e4671e6733034@mail.gmail.com> From: Garrett Cooper To: Rohit X Tripathi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: /dev/nviddiactl from current ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:53:23 -0000 On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Rohit X Tripathi wrote: >> What branch of FreeBSD are you running? >> Did you load the nvidia kernel module (add nvidia_load="YES" >> to /boot/loader.conf)? >> What messages were emitted after loading it? >> What nvidia card do you have ( pciconf -lv | grep -B5 VGA)? > > Thank you, > > I'm running 8-current (from the 22nd of feb), I did add nvidia_load="YES", kdlstat shows: > >> Is the kernel module actually loaded (kldstat will tell you that)? >> Thanks, >> -Garrett > > rohit@tp~ $ kldstat > Id Refs Address Size Name > 1 41 0xc0400000 a7d788 kernel > 2 2 0xc0e7e000 29a08 linux.ko > 3 1 0xc0ea8000 3374 umodem.ko > 4 1 0xc0eac000 69990 acpi.ko > 5 1 0xc5688000 7000 linprocfs.ko > 6 1 0xc5731000 9000 reiserfs.ko > > The card is 570M on a thinkpad t61p. I also didn't notice any messages related to nvidia, but I can look more deeply. Is there a way to enable debugging in the nvidia module? > > regards (and please excuse the hefty disclaimers below my emails) > > -Rohit Do kldload nvidia and the messages that will get printed out by kldload / on the 1st console / in /var/log/messages will help us diagnose the issue better with you. Thanks, -Garrett