Nvidia Driver w/RELENG_7

[John Baldwin]

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