Ok, I answered my own question, on upgrading to the new nvidia driver did the trick. I used the driver direct from nvidia: http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_1.0-6113.html Followed the README and all is well, the downloaded driver also added the nvidia_load="YES" line to loader.conf, so far only tested KDE 3 and its working. Jorge On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Jorge Aldana wrote: > Ok, I got 5.3-BETA1 going thanks to all the tips I've seen so far, I finally > got it to boot after following the advice to add "device apic" and figuring > out the new sound device setup, I did remove the debugging options, not sure > if that was a factor but I trimmed a bit and luckily it booted after removing > that and adding apic. > > Now I am trying to load the nvidia driver on boot up and it panics if I > attempt to load it at boot up. Anyone else gotten this far yet? Do I need to > upgrade to the new Nvidia driver I've been reading about? I've kept the > loader.conf as follows (boots with this not sure if any of this is still > needed): > > linux_load="YES" > agp_load="YES" > > Had nvidia_load="YES" but that crashed it. > > Thanks, > > Jorge > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" > >Received on Thu Aug 26 2004 - 00:14:31 UTC
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