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?