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. =2D-=20 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> =A0<>< =A0http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" =A0=3D =A0http://www.FreeBSD.org
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