NVidia kernel driver support for FreeBSD-5.1

[Kenneth Culver]

> I've got a PCI-NVidia Riva TNT 64 video card at home,
> and I've tried to compile the drivers but it doesn't work,
> and after changing the source to let the compilation progress,
> when the module is loaded I've received a "kernel panic".
>
> Im using FreeBSD-5.1 with XFree86-4.3, what can I do
> to solve this issue ? I can not run the X system using
> the "nv" driver, my computer hangs up.
>
Try using the port of the driver instead of doing things manually:

cd /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver

make

make install

That should apply the proper patches to the kernel part of the driver. If
it doesn't, it's possible your ports tree is out of date.

Ken