Nvidia Driver w/RELENG_7

[Ali Mashtizadeh]

Ah, okay yes if its loaded at boot time it works, funny I thought I tried
that previously. That would be a nice fix to get nvidia talking to the
acpi_video driver.

Ali

On Jan 14, 2008 5:34 AM, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Sunday 13 January 2008 08:55:46 pm Yuri Pankov wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 05:22:46PM -0800, Ali Mashtizadeh wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Ali Mashtizadeh
> > > علی مشتی زاده
> >
> > If you are sure that installed version of nvidia-driver supports your
> > card, try putting nvidia_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf. I guess your
> > problem is vgapci attaching to device, leaving nvidia module without
> > hardware to attach, like below:
> >
> > vgapci0 at pci0:5:0:0:     class=0x030000 card=0x40161682 chip=0x040210de
> > rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00
> >     vendor     = 'Nvidia Corp'
> >     device     = 'GeForce 8600 GT'
> >     class      = display
> >     subclass   = VGA
>
> Actually, nvidia-driver is supposed to be a child of vgapci0 so it can
> cooperate with things like acpi_video(4).  The Nvidia driver author is
> aware of this and should be able to fix it.
>
> --
> John Baldwin
>



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Ali Mashtizadeh
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