Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:53:21 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: Rohit X Tripathi <rohit.x.tripathi@jpmchase.com> Cc: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /dev/nviddiactl from current ports Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0902261053w5a233849s898e4671e6733034@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <FC9F7DCFEC3D424CAC2EB55114F0AFA31AE7320A79@EMARC03VS01.exchad.jpmchase.net> References: <FC9F7DCFEC3D424CAC2EB55114F0AFA31AE7320971@EMARC03VS01.exchad.jpmchase.net> <1235668962.2224.72.camel@strangepork.mintel.co.uk> <FC9F7DCFEC3D424CAC2EB55114F0AFA31AE7320A79@EMARC03VS01.exchad.jpmchase.net>
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On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Rohit X Tripathi
<rohit.x.tripathi@jpmchase.com> wrote:
>> What branch of FreeBSD are you running?
>> Did you load the nvidia kernel module (add nvidia_load="YES"
>> to /boot/loader.conf)?
>> What messages were emitted after loading it?
>> What nvidia card do you have ( pciconf -lv | grep -B5 VGA)?
>
> Thank you,
>
> I'm running 8-current (from the 22nd of feb), I did add nvidia_load="YES", kdlstat shows:
>
>> Is the kernel module actually loaded (kldstat will tell you that)?
>> Thanks,
>> -Garrett
>
> rohit@tp~ $ kldstat
> Id Refs Address Size Name
> 1 41 0xc0400000 a7d788 kernel
> 2 2 0xc0e7e000 29a08 linux.ko
> 3 1 0xc0ea8000 3374 umodem.ko
> 4 1 0xc0eac000 69990 acpi.ko
> 5 1 0xc5688000 7000 linprocfs.ko
> 6 1 0xc5731000 9000 reiserfs.ko
>
> The card is 570M on a thinkpad t61p. I also didn't notice any messages related to nvidia, but I can look more deeply. Is there a way to enable debugging in the nvidia module?
>
> regards (and please excuse the hefty disclaimers below my emails)
>
> -Rohit
Do kldload nvidia and the messages that will get printed out by
kldload / on the 1st console / in /var/log/messages will help us
diagnose the issue better with you.
Thanks,
-Garrett
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