Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 09:59:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org> To: Juan Rodriguez Hervella <jrh@it.uc3m.es> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVidia kernel driver support for FreeBSD-5.1 Message-ID: <20030618095835.U78954@alpha.yumyumyum.org> In-Reply-To: <200306180914.22834.jrh@it.uc3m.es> References: <200306180914.22834.jrh@it.uc3m.es>
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> I've got a PCI-NVidia Riva TNT 64 video card at home, > and I've tried to compile the drivers but it doesn't work, > and after changing the source to let the compilation progress, > when the module is loaded I've received a "kernel panic". > > Im using FreeBSD-5.1 with XFree86-4.3, what can I do > to solve this issue ? I can not run the X system using > the "nv" driver, my computer hangs up. > Try using the port of the driver instead of doing things manually: cd /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver make make install That should apply the proper patches to the kernel part of the driver. If it doesn't, it's possible your ports tree is out of date. Ken
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