NVidia driver on 6.1-PRERELEASE causes panic

[Eric Anderson]

Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> Eric Anderson wrote:
>> I'm trying to set up a new laptop (Dell Latitude 820), which has an 
>> NVidia Quadro 110 video card.
>>
>> I've built and installed the nvidia-driver port, and it loads the 
>> module successfully.  However, I'm not getting any newly created 
>> devices in /dev/, so Xorg won't start (complains about not having the 
>> kernel module installed, although it is, I presume because the 
>> /dev/nvidiactl device isn't being created).
>>
>> Upon kldunloading the nvidia module, my machine panics and dumps, so I 
>> have some cores lying around.
> 
> Just to reply to a less important aspect of your question - I find that 
> kldunloading the nvidia module frequently causes panics on many 
> different computers.
> 
> Also I have had trouble getting nvidia drivers to work on more modern 
> hardware.  The solution that works for me is to wait until nvidia 
> upgrade their software and/or to wait until the computer manufacturer 
> updates their BIOS.  One of these always fixed the problem for me, but 
> it did require waiting about 6 months to a year.
> 
> In the mean time, have you tried the nv driver?  It might not give cool 
> 3D acceleration, but it may well work.

I don't care much about 3d, but my screen does 1920x1200, which the nv 
driver doesn't seem to do.  (Please correct me if I'm wrong!)

Thanks for the input..

Eric




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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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