From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 17 8: 1:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.yumyumyum.org (dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.171.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E497937B404 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 08:01:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 40450 invoked by uid 1001); 17 Jan 2002 16:01:50 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Jan 2002 16:01:50 -0000 Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:01:50 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Culver To: Gary Jennejohn Cc: Daniel Leal , Subject: Re: kldload nvidia In-Reply-To: <200201171538.g0HFcCX62238@peedub.jennejohn.org> Message-ID: <20020117110012.T40421-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ACtually the way this is SUPPOSED to be done is to edit /boot/loader.conf and add a line that says: nvidia_load="YES" I'd say this is better because then the nvidia card is probed at bootup and all it's resources are allocated the same way the rest of the cards on the system are done. That said I'm not sure it makes that much difference :-) Ken On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > Daniel Leal writes: > > Hi! > > > > i have just installed the new nvidia driver. i followed a nice tuturial. Befo > > re > > i startx, i have do run kldload nvidia. Is there a way to configure something > > in the kernel to avoid doing this all the time? > > > > No, since the mvidia moduke isn't an official part of FreeBSD yet. > > The are various ways to automate this. The most generic is probably to > do what I did and put ``/sbin/kldload nvidia'' into /etc/rc.local, > which gets run at the end of the boot process. > > --- > Gary Jennejohn / garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message