Re: GeForce - double crash with nouveau (boot and X11)

2020-12-02 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi,. let me update on this. I updated the BIOS of the machine (hard process: you need windows 7, administrator rights and a charged and good battery beyond wall-plug to update this Acer Aspire 9410). With the new BIOS, OpenBSD is capable of booting and running X11 "out of the box" with no

Re: GeForce - double crash with nouveau (boot and X11)

2020-11-29 Thread Riccardo Mottola
As a reference, here is the dmesg output of NetBSD 9.1 with nouveau disabled. 2 errors are about cardus, the Laptop has only one, perhaps the other is routed to the SD card reader? Inconvenient to loose... acpi wmi I don't know what it is, howver on the videocard, it is interesting: [

Re: GeForce - double crash with nouveau (boot and X11)

2020-11-24 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Bodie wrote: >> >> Any suggestions? I'd like to get nv working but even more nouveau of >> course (here I think some kernel and drm debugging is required) >> > > What version of NetBSD did you try? Did you check with current snapshot? > >

Re: GeForce - double crash with nouveau (boot and X11)

2020-11-23 Thread Bodie
On 24.11.2020 02:14, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Hi all,, I got a used laptop and sadly it has a nvidia 7300 card  Sadly because I know they are troublesome - they work(ed) well on linux and freebsd until they stopped providing a current binary legacy driver, then you can trash it, apparently.