Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 17:31:21 -0400 From: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Best hardware for a replacement desktop? Message-ID: <CAGBxaXnZq_jCKquCdqBj3C06_Gu35GMYnXTKE-swoDRRZU-ovQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20190723221938.28a62565@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <CAGBxaX=ch_=NKBAme9wTQjSVsJ4Oxschs3Qg7Kddh7KouW3DJw@mail.gmail.com> <5ceb24c1-66ce-2603-5eed-78283d9676b7@holgerdanske.com> <CAGBxaXmiAy2xAKT1oyat4J_Q-gOFTzEEiQQso3oTS9EqoY3ayQ@mail.gmail.com> <23861.63968.885139.970960@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <1618173539.5511975.1563822072600@mail.yahoo.com> <CAGBxaXnKpD8ok%2B9YPr_s1fYrEnj%2BWP20_5dAFp17Bz2KdReKEg@mail.gmail.com> <1125579496.1306494.1563881223475@mail.yahoo.com> <20190723173126.2a26ee26@archlinux> <CAGBxaXmNX9LA1gOsJi5m0MOB90p%2Bmjj6UCMhqK7dN_HPHrqrmQ@mail.gmail.com> <20190723221938.28a62565@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 5:19 PM RW via freebsd-questions < freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 13:18:48 -0400 > Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > > (the documentation > > currently has a reported bug that leads to a misconfiguration [you > > need to load nvidia.ko as well as nvidia-modeset.ko in loader.conf > > and not post device probing > > > My understanding is that you only need to load nvidia-modeset.ko in > loader.conf, and nvidia.ko will get loaded as a side effect. Are you > saying that's wrong? > Yes: nvidia-modeset_load="YES" Will *NOT* load it correctly (it will not find the card in the device probe) *BUT*: nvidia_load="YES" nvidia-modeset_load="YES" works fine (about twice as fast performance also). See: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/frustration-about-update-of-nvidia-driver-port.57477/ and associate PR https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212279 For reference I am using: x11/nvidia-driver-390.87_3 (current version from ports/head svn repo) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org
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