From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 31 10:49:31 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11813106564A for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:49:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mremski@comcast.net) Received: from qmta14.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta14.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.59.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B49C28FC0C for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:49:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta17.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.89]) by qmta14.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 2Aob1g0051vXlb85EApW2J; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:49:30 +0000 Received: from payne2.remski.net ([75.67.219.182]) by omta17.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 2ApU1g0053wit233dApWsp; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:49:30 +0000 Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:49:26 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Remski To: "Duane H. Hesser" In-Reply-To: <20110130091037.da14eccc.dhesser@accima.com> Message-ID: References: <20110130091037.da14eccc.dhesser@accima.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:26:49 +0000 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVIDIA (port) driver fails to create /dev/nvidactl; 8.2Prerelease X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:49:31 -0000 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 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 > -- > Duane H. Hesser >