Hi all, as written some times, I have issues with nVidia (pesky cards!) - NetBSD crashes as soon as initializes the framebuffer. I asked for help several times... up to 9.1...
I just upgraded to 9.2 and had a bad experience: the bood kernel of the CD fails and hangs! I think this is really a bad experience. Since I debugged this a lot, I quickly knew "boot netbsd -c" and "disable nouveau" to get the classic text menus. A very nice thing would be of course to have this issue fixed for "my" G72 nVidia card [*]; but more broadly, this could happen for other cards. I see three solutions 1) disable drm framebuffers in install kernels totally (OpenBSD does this I think) 2) have a "whitelist" approach, what works, enabled, else... blocked. At every confirmed card and/or fixed bug, add it to the list 3) have a "blacklist" approach... at every bug, block one, if bug solved, remove it What do you think? We should not scare users away with a crashing boot. I found this related bug (another card than mine): http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=53492 If someone wants to hack, I can as I did in the past share logs, try thing, disable stuff in kernel... debugging is the fun part - but I propose also a broader solution for newcomers. Riccardo [*] The chip should be supported - in nouveau speak it is a NV46 https://linux.die.net/man/4/nouveau https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/FeatureMatrix.html