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Date:      Tue, 4 Mar 2003 00:53:32 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com>
To:        walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: nvidia module panics today's kernel [03-03-03]
Message-ID:  <20030304005059.M59207@alpha.siliconlandmark.com>
In-Reply-To: <3E64335A.60408@myrealbox.com>
References:  <3E64335A.60408@myrealbox.com>

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On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, walt wrote:

> My mini 'disaster' of earlier today was caused by the nvidia kernel
> module being autoloaded at boot, which causes an immediate kernel panic.
>
> The newest kernel seems fine until I try to load the module manually,
> at which time I still get the kernel panic even after re-compiling
> the module.
>
> Maxime, it looks like the nvidia module will need to be sculpted one
> more time.   :-(

If you really need to use your workstation, you can try the open source nv
XFree86 driver. It's not as fast as the nVidia detonator driver and it's
not accelerated, but you can at least use X11 at a reasonable resolution
and color depth.

Regards,

> Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
> Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/    >

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