Changeset 1890 for pcbsd/trunk/system-overlay/PCBSD/xorg-gui/templates/scripts/nvidia-169.12.sh

Timestamp:

05/12/08 10:03:54 (4 months ago)

Author:

kris

Message:

Fixed up the problems with loading NVIDIA from the XGUI tool on FreeBSD 7.
Turns out you have to load nvidia driver from /boot/loader.conf at bootup
instead of kldload as on 6.x. Script takes this into account and prompts to
reboot when an nvidia driver is choosen.

Files:

• pcbsd/trunk/system-overlay/PCBSD/xorg-gui/templates/scripts/nvidia-169.12.sh (modified) (2 diffs)

pcbsd/trunk/system-overlay/PCBSD/xorg-gui/templates/scripts/nvidia-169.12.sh

@@ -16 +16 @@
 
 # Add the nvidia driver to the system
-pkg_add -f /PCBSD/packages/nvidia-driver-169.12.tbz
+pkg_add -f /PCBSD/packages/nvidia-driver-169.12*.tbz
 pkg_add -f /PCBSD/packages/nvidia-settings*.tbz
 
@@ -37 +37 @@
 mv /tmp/.device.hints /boot/device.hints
 echo "hint.agp.0.disabled=\"1\"" >> /boot/device.hints
+
+ls /dev/nvidiactl* >/dev/null
+if [  "$?" != "0" ]
+then
+ echo "Rebooting to load nvidia kernel module..."
+ ( shutdown -r now )&
+ sleep 500
+fi