Re: NetBSD and old nvidia laptop card / crash and unusable X11

2022-12-28 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Julian, On 15/12/2022 18:28, Julian Coleman wrote: I wonder if it's crashing with the screen off? Are you able to build a kernel with: options DDB_ONPANIC=1 options DDB_COMMANDONENTER="trace;reboot" ? We might then be able to catch the crash details on the next boot. it took a

Re: NetBSD and old nvidia laptop card / crash and unusable X11

2022-12-28 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, On 2022-12-23 14:30:35 + Greg Troxel wrote: It is entirely possible to build a full current or 10 release on 9. You can then run either kernel with 9 userland. To build, just "./build.sh release". The time you have to wait will be less than the time to figure out how to avoid

Re: NetBSD and old nvidia laptop card / crash and unusable X11

2022-12-23 Thread Greg Troxel
It is entirely possible to build a full current or 10 release on 9. You can then run either kernel with 9 userland. To build, just "./build.sh release". The time you have to wait will be less than the time to figure out how to avoid that. But you can build tools, and then kernel, without

Re: NetBSD and old nvidia laptop card / crash and unusable X11

2022-12-23 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Riccardo Mottola wrote: I can do that very easily on the 9.3 kernel sources which I have installed and the patch by Robert... because I have those sources already setup up and ready ro rebuild. I don't have the current kernel stuff here though. answering to my self after private with

Re: NetBSD and old nvidia laptop card / crash and unusable X11

2022-12-15 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Julian, Julian Coleman wrote: I wonder if it's crashing with the screen off? Are you able to build a kernel with: options DDB_ONPANIC=1 options DDB_COMMANDONENTER="trace;reboot" ? We might then be able to catch the crash details on the next boot. Regards, I can do that very

Re: NetBSD and old nvidia laptop card / crash and unusable X11

2022-12-15 Thread Julian Coleman
Hi, > The screen becomes black when fb sould be turned on. This is similar (but > not same) behaviour after applying a patch of Robert Swindell about correct > PCI BAR detection. > > The screen is black, the boot does not complete (cannot remotely log-in), > caps-lock does not work, power-off or

Re: NetBSD and old nvidia laptop card / crash and unusable X11

2022-12-15 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Benny, Benny Siegert wrote: Hi Riccardo, On Thu, 8 Dec 2022, Riccardo Mottola wrote: I have a fine and nice laptop which unfortunately has an older nvidia card. I updated to 9.3, but the same issue persist as older versions. is it any better if you try booting a NetBSD-current snapshot?

Re: NetBSD and old nvidia laptop card / crash and unusable X11

2022-12-08 Thread Benny Siegert
Hi Riccardo, On Thu, 8 Dec 2022, Riccardo Mottola wrote: I have a fine and nice laptop which unfortunately has an older nvidia card. I updated to 9.3, but the same issue persist as older versions. is it any better if you try booting a NetBSD-current snapshot? -- Benny

NetBSD and old nvidia laptop card / crash and unusable X11

2022-12-08 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi All, I have a fine and nice laptop which unfortunately has an older nvidia card. I updated to 9.3, but the same issue persist as older versions. lspci identifies the card as: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G72M [Quadro NVS 110M/GeForce Go 7300] (rev a1) If I