SMP in the Kernel and NVIDIA Driver
Srot BULL
pwd8jmr22w at me.point.ne.jp
Wed Jul 14 18:53:29 PDT 2004
Sorry for replying to my own post...I just thought maybe someone
might be interested in this thread...Read below on my developments...
> Josh Paetzel wrote:
>
>> I have a SMP system w/ Nvidia card. Trying to enable SMP while using
>> the FreeBSD Nvidia drivers causes the system to lock up when starting
>> X. If you look in the archives there are other people experiencing
>> the same issue.
>> My workaround is to use an ATI card. :-/
>
>
> Thanks for the reply...
> Well, I will try to re-compile my kernel, enabling SMP and maybe try
> X.org's "nv" driver...If everything works, I will look in the archives
> (funny thing, I was looking at the archives about my Sound Card before
> sending the email, but I forgot to check about SMP and Nvidia
> Driver)...and maybe I will find some clues on how to use FreeBSD's
> NVidia Driver and enable SMP as well...if nothing comes out, maybe I
> will have to use "nv" driver...and wait if someone succeeds in using the
> FreeBSD NVidia Driver...
Well, like I said above...I tried to enable SMP in my kernel and used
Xorg's "nv" video driver instead of the native FreeBSD NVidia
driver in the ports...everything works fine now...my systems detects 2
logical CPU's (by the way, I need to admit this first, I still could not
comprehend what Hyperthreading is...I only wanted to enable it because I
bought an Intel CPU that supports it...maybe I will devote some more
time on reading Intel's HP on HTT).
I said everything works fine, but I seem to notice that my CPU fan is
having a hard time...I am not that worried yet but maybe I will try to
search google and the archives on SMP's connection with the CPU fan...
That's it thanks for the help/advice/hints...
Srot BULL
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