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Date:      Fri, 28 Apr 2006 07:56:04 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NVidia driver on 6.1-PRERELEASE causes panic
Message-ID:  <200604280756.05312.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4451774C.2030402@centtech.com>
References:  <4450BA10.6020007@centtech.com> <200604271725.13999.jhb@freebsd.org> <4451774C.2030402@centtech.com>

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On Thursday 27 April 2006 10:00 pm, Eric Anderson wrote:
> 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?

Probably not as it would probably be considered an ABI breakage.

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