Using nvidia-driver with 6-x/CURRENT
David Gurvich
david.freebsd at verizon.net
Mon May 9 11:28:22 PDT 2005
If you use burncd instead of cdrecord there is no need for atapicam in the
kernel or as a module. It appears you are only using for your CD drives.
For simple burning, burncd is enough.
On Monday 09 May 2005 12:48, Rudolf Cejka wrote:
> David Gurvich wrote (2005/05/08):
> > I was able to install v.7174 from the port after modifying nv-freebsd.h.
> > This consisted of commenting out the portion where an error is given if
> > the freebsd version is greater than 6.
>
> Hello, thanks for the information. I tried today's current with the new
> nvidia driver and here are my first rough experiences:
>
> - I adjusted Makefile and distinfo from 6113 to 7174, then removed all
> patches for 6113 in directory files and put here just one patch for
> nv-freebsd.h, which removes above mentioned error. There seems to be
> needed more adjustments for the port, but wow - I'm able after very
> long time with my NVidia FX5200 to switch between graphics and text mode
> again - great.
>
> - However when updating to the todays -current, I had to disable atapicam
> from my kernel, because it stopped my system from booting. It hanged
> after acd1 message - here are the last booting lines:
> ...
> sym0: <875> port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem
> 0xfbefec00-0xfbefecff,0xfbefd000-0xfbefdfff irq 5 at device 9.0 on pci2
> sym0: Symbios NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity checking
> sym0: open drain IRQ line driver, using on-chip SRAM
> sym0: using LOAD/STORE-based firmware.
> sym0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> ...
> Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
> IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
> ad0: 76319MB <WDC WD800JB-00ETA0 77.07W77> at ata0-master UDMA100
> acd0: CDRW <HL-DT-ST GCE-8520B/1.04> at ata1-master UDMA33
> acd1: CDROM <CDU5211/YYS7> at ata1-slave UDMA33
>
> When I removed SCSI controller from my computer, I was able to boot
> the kernel again, but it paniced shortly. However removing atapicam
> from kernel configuration seems to be sufficient. In kernel without
> atapicam, kldload atapicam seems that it does nothing, kldunload atapicam
> panics the system with current process = 33 (swi2: cambio).
More information about the freebsd-current
mailing list