NVidia driver on 6.1-PRERELEASE causes panic

[Eric Anderson]

Eric Anderson wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a new laptop (Dell Latitude 820), which has an 
> NVidia Quadro 110 video card.
> 
> I've built and installed the nvidia-driver port, and it loads the module 
> successfully.  However, I'm not getting any newly created devices in 
> /dev/, so Xorg won't start (complains about not having the kernel module 
> installed, although it is, I presume because the /dev/nvidiactl device 
> isn't being created).
> 
> Upon kldunloading the nvidia module, my machine panics and dumps, so I 
> have some cores lying around.
> 
> Does anyone have any hints on this?

Looks like this might be a conflict with acpi_video.  Is that to be 
expected?


Eric




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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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