Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:27:08 +0100 From: Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de> To: Rohit X Tripathi <rohit.x.tripathi@jpmchase.com> Cc: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/nviddiactl from current ports Message-ID: <49A6ED0C.6020308@gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d0902261053w5a233849s898e4671e6733034@mail.gmail.com> References: <FC9F7DCFEC3D424CAC2EB55114F0AFA31AE7320971@EMARC03VS01.exchad.jpmchase.net> <1235668962.2224.72.camel@strangepork.mintel.co.uk> <FC9F7DCFEC3D424CAC2EB55114F0AFA31AE7320A79@EMARC03VS01.exchad.jpmchase.net> <7d6fde3d0902261053w5a233849s898e4671e6733034@mail.gmail.com>
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On 26.02.2009 19:53 (UTC+1), Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Rohit X Tripathi > <rohit.x.tripathi@jpmchase.com> 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 In my experience with this driver you have to reboot after installing the driver. Only 'kldload nvidia.ko' often not get the driver loaded correctly. Rainerhome | help
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