From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 28 02:00:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92E5116A402; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 02:00:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CB5143D46; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 02:00:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [192.168.42.21] (andersonbox1.centtech.com [192.168.42.21]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k3S20e0t062817; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:00:40 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <4451774C.2030402@centtech.com> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:00:44 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060402) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin References: <4450BA10.6020007@centtech.com> <44511081.8080709@centtech.com> <200604271725.13999.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200604271725.13999.jhb@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1428/Thu Apr 27 13:39:31 2006 on mh2.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVidia driver on 6.1-PRERELEASE causes panic X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 02:00:41 -0000 John Baldwin wrote: > 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. > Bummer - ok.. Thanks for the confirmation. Will that get trickled down to 6.x ever? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------