Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:49:26 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Remski <mremski@comcast.net> To: "Duane H. Hesser" <dhesser@accima.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVIDIA (port) driver fails to create /dev/nvidactl; 8.2Prerelease Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1101310547210.11889@payne.remski.net> In-Reply-To: <20110130091037.da14eccc.dhesser@accima.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1101300503360.8351@payne.remski.net> <20110130091037.da14eccc.dhesser@accima.com>
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Duane, just a thought. I built the driver without the AGP support, did you build that in? Some of the notes/post install message talks about loading agp.ko first and potential issues with a SHM setting. On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Duane H. Hesser wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 05:07:09 -0500 (EST) > Michael Remski <mremski@comcast.net> wrote: > >> Duane: >> As a datapoint, I installed the ports/x11/nvidia-driver on a system >> running 8.2 Pre Release from a /usr/src that picked up things from >> yesterday. >> FreeBSD payne.remski.net 8.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE #3: Sat Jan >> 29 05:26:40 EST 2011 root@payne.remski.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PAYNE >> amd64 >> >> The video card is a GeForce 210 PCIE card, the version in the Makefile is >> 256.53. I did nothing more than make install the port and adjust my >> xorg.conf. >> >> m > > Thanks. That changes things a bit for me. I'll try updating > my sources again (they're only 3 days old, but who knows?) build > a new kernel, and re-install the port. > > This is the sort of report I needed; thanks. > -- > Duane H. Hesser <dhesser@accima.com> > -- > Duane H. Hesser <dhesser@accima.com> >
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