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

[Julian Coleman <jdc%coris.org.uk@localhost>]

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 ctrl-alt-canc neither.

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,

Julian
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