NVIDIA (port) driver fails to create /dev/nvidactl; 8.2Prerelease

[Michael Remski]

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 at 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 at 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 at accima.com>
> -- 
> Duane H. Hesser <dhesser at accima.com>
>