Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:25:12 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVidia driver on 6.1-PRERELEASE causes panic Message-ID: <200604271725.13999.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <44511081.8080709@centtech.com> References: <4450BA10.6020007@centtech.com> <44511081.8080709@centtech.com>
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On Thursday 27 April 2006 14:42, Eric Anderson wrote: > Eric Anderson wrote: > > I'm trying to set up a new laptop (Dell Latitude 820), which has an > > NVidia Quadro 110 video card. > > > > I've built and installed the nvidia-driver port, and it loads the module > > successfully. However, I'm not getting any newly created devices in > > /dev/, so Xorg won't start (complains about not having the kernel module > > installed, although it is, I presume because the /dev/nvidiactl device > > isn't being created). > > > > Upon kldunloading the nvidia module, my machine panics and dumps, so I > > have some cores lying around. > > > > Does anyone have any hints on this? > > Looks like this might be a conflict with acpi_video. Is that to be > expected? Yes. It does conflict in 6.x. That will be fixed in 7.0 though it might require an update to the nvidia driver to make it play nice. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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