Nvidia Driver w/RELENG_7

Daniel O'Connor doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Sun Jan 13 17:59:34 PST 2008


On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Ali Mashtizadeh wrote:
> Does anyone have the nvidia video driver working with releng 7? What
> I am seeing is that the kernel module compiles and loads fine, but it
> will not detect any video card. I've tried removing the agp device
> from my BSD kernel and using nvidia's.

Load the module in the loader rather than after the kernel has booted.

acpi_video can also grab the device I believe.. I am running current (ie 
8) and I ran -current when it was 7.x and loading it from the loader 
has always worked (modulo incompatible source changes :)

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