Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:25:40 -0500 From: "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot@gmail.com> To: "Chuck Robey" <chuckr@chuckr.org> Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: problem with ldconfig Message-ID: <47d0403c0802290525l11dab3f7gac5601f5dd01bde3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47C7294E.9000804@chuckr.org> References: <47C7294E.9000804@chuckr.org>
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Hi Chuck, On 2/28/08, Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > [snip RAID/loader interaction] > Well, the other thing that's come up, I can't get my nvidia driver to work > along with xorg. It used to show it's arrival both in kldstat, AND also > because, in /dev, a file named nvidiactl would show up. This has stopped > happening. I had been using the old version 100.14.19, and when I checked > the nvidia website, it seems a couple of newer versions had appeared, so I > downloaded and built version 169.12. Don't ask me why the crazy version > numbering, I looked around for something like a changelog, but had no luck. > Anyhow, updating to the newer version wasn't too hard, but didn't show any > change. Consulting the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file, even though kldstat says > that nvidia.ko is loaded, it never shows a /dev/nvidiactl, and the log file > says clearly that it never finds the Nvidia kernel module. Using it with > Vesa lets me limp, so I do that, but howcome? The nvidia kernel module now needs to be loaded at boot-time; it won't supercede the default vga support if loaded later. cat nvidia_load="YES"" >> /boot/loader.conf -Ben Kaduk > > OK, I'm not giving my ldconfig problem to you folks, its quite likely its a > FreeBSD-current problem, so let those folks handle that one. > > Boy, I feel like the little boy who cried wolf! > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFHxylOz62J6PPcoOkRAudcAJ9ex65oZUoh+0gf/7WcpNi6KhwsxwCgje63 > m4GwVJZrkoU3McfHK1NAArk= > =wLpy > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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