From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 26 20:06:29 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 8A0CD1065789 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:06:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rhurlin@gwdg.de) Received: from amailer.gwdg.de (amailer.gwdg.de [134.76.10.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 468398FC19 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:06:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rhurlin@gwdg.de) Received: from p578b68b8.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([87.139.104.184] helo=krabat.raven.hur) by mailer.gwdg.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Lclt5-0007Tv-1N; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:27:15 +0100 Message-ID: <49A6ED0C.6020308@gwdg.de> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:27:08 +0100 From: Rainer Hurling User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090124) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rohit X Tripathi References: <1235668962.2224.72.camel@strangepork.mintel.co.uk> <7d6fde3d0902261053w5a233849s898e4671e6733034@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d0902261053w5a233849s898e4671e6733034@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated: Id:rhurlin X-Spam-Level: - X-Virus-Scanned: (clean) by exiscan+sophie Cc: Garrett Cooper , 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 20:06:30 -0000 On 26.02.2009 19:53 (UTC+1), Garrett Cooper wrote: > 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 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. Rainer