NVidia driver on 6.1-PRERELEASE causes panic

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 27 April 2006 14:42, Eric Anderson 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.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any hints on this?
> 
> Looks like this might be a conflict with acpi_video.  Is that to be 
> expected?

Yes.  It does conflict in 6.x.  That will be fixed in 7.0 though it
might require an update to the nvidia driver to make it play nice.

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