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Date:      Wed, 5 Mar 2003 04:29:31 -0300 (BRST)
From:      Rossam Souza Silva <rss@cin.ufpe.br>
To:        Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org>
Cc:        walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>, <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: nvidia module panics today's kernel [03-03-03]
Message-ID:  <20030305022905.V54200-100000@triunfo.cin.ufpe.br>
In-Reply-To: <20030304143536.GA63673@elvis.mu.org>

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Hi, thanks Maxime, your patch works ok! Well, the nVIDIA driver is
labeled "beta quality" anyway, so, why not upgrade nvidia-driver port to
support 5-CURRENT too? I'm actually using it, with a ugly hack: applying
the patch, compacting and copying the new distfile, editing Makefile to
comment 4.x (/dev entries) stuff and 5.x (IGNORE), make NO_CHECKSUM=yes
install clean.

It's working great, my "big" stress test is the glx version of Quakeforge.
:) I can run it in a range of 40-77 FPS (640x480, fullscreen). glxgears
reports 551.400 FPS in default size.

My hardware setup:

AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (@ 1.53GHz)
ASUS A7N266-VM (nForce based, Integrated GeForce2, sharing 32MB)
256MB DDR266

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On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Maxime Henrion wrote:

> 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.   :-(
>
> Yes, the cdevsw initialization scheme and the driver needs to be updated
> accordingly.  I've updated my patch at :
>
> 	http://mu.org/~mux/patches/nvidia.patch
>
> Cheers,
> Maxime
>
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