From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 17 9:14:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout04.sul.t-online.com (mailout04.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3315237B416 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:14:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from fwd05.sul.t-online.de by mailout04.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 16RG6v-0004hr-0C; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 18:13:57 +0100 Received: from peedub.jennejohn.org (520017439985-0001@[217.235.124.138]) by fmrl05.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 16RG6k-0EgjyqC; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 18:13:46 +0100 Received: from peedub.jennejohn.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.jennejohn.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0HHDiX62736; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 18:13:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from garyj@peedub.jennejohn.org) Message-Id: <200201171713.g0HHDiX62736@peedub.jennejohn.org> To: Kenneth Culver Cc: Daniel Leal , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kldload nvidia Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:01:50 EST." <20020117110012.T40421-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 18:13:44 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn X-Sender: 520017439985-0001@t-dialin.net 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 Kenneth Culver writes: > 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 > Yes, I know, but the reason I recommended /etc/rc.local is that it will work on even older versions of FBSD without /boot/loader.conf. That's I wrote "most generic". --- 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