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authordanfe <danfe@FreeBSD.org>2006-09-07 20:18:02 +0800
committerdanfe <danfe@FreeBSD.org>2006-09-07 20:18:02 +0800
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Advise how to deal with common "not enough shared memory" problem that has
troubled many FreeBSD+nVidia users. PR: ports/95122
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@@ -23,4 +23,11 @@ linux.ko is available as well (or have it compiled in kernel).
Note that this driver does not support PAE-enabled kernels.
+If X.org cannot start and reports
+
+ (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to obtain a shared memory identifier.
+
+in /var/log/Xorg.0.log while actually you have ``options SYSVSHM''
+enabled in kernel, the sysctl ``kern.ipc.shmall'' should be increased.
+
See %%PREFIX%%/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README for more information.