Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:03:17 -0800 From: "Ali Mashtizadeh" <mashtizadeh@gmail.com> To: "John Baldwin" <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nvidia Driver w/RELENG_7 Message-ID: <440b3e930801141103n6dcfabcet4a788fe4c7e01678@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200801140834.34917.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <440b3e930801131722p1289b434w66633e302936aa12@mail.gmail.com> <20080114015546.GA1545@darklight.org.ru> <200801140834.34917.jhb@freebsd.org>
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Ah, okay yes if its loaded at boot time it works, funny I thought I tried that previously. That would be a nice fix to get nvidia talking to the acpi_video driver. Ali On Jan 14, 2008 5:34 AM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Sunday 13 January 2008 08:55:46 pm Yuri Pankov wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 05:22:46PM -0800, Ali Mashtizadeh wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Does anyone have the nvidia video driver working with releng 7? What I > am > > > seeing is that the kernel module compiles and loads fine, but it will > not > > > detect any video card. I've tried removing the agp device from my BSD > kernel > > > and using nvidia's. > > > > > > -- > > > Ali Mashtizadeh > > > علی مشتی زاده > > > > If you are sure that installed version of nvidia-driver supports your > > card, try putting nvidia_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf. I guess your > > problem is vgapci attaching to device, leaving nvidia module without > > hardware to attach, like below: > > > > vgapci0@pci0:5:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x40161682 chip=0x040210de > > rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00 > > vendor = 'Nvidia Corp' > > device = 'GeForce 8600 GT' > > class = display > > subclass = VGA > > Actually, nvidia-driver is supposed to be a child of vgapci0 so it can > cooperate with things like acpi_video(4). The Nvidia driver author is > aware of this and should be able to fix it. > > -- > John Baldwin > -- Ali Mashtizadeh علی مشتی زاده
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