Nvidia Driver 180.XX series and 173.14.17 series.

[Amigamerlin]

Hi guys I've a PCIE 6800 GT With an Asrock AliveDual-eSATA2 and and AMD 6400 that I currently use with PC-BSD.

Starting from the Galielo release I can't use anymore HW acceleration with 180.51or previous 180.XX nvidia driver release.

Using a 173.14.17 Nvidia driver series I have fully HW Acceleration with Galileo edition but I was facing, in my case, a PC Hard lockup in every next reboot after the 173.14.17 driver installation but not during the driver change session.

I talked with Kris about and he helped me to build a workaround that let me have the Fully HW acceleration and no hard PC lockup anymore.

The Tips was to load the Vesa module in Boot/loader.conf.
This is my loader.conf

linux_load="YES"
ulpt_load="YES"
vesa_load="YES"
#splash_pcx_load="YES"
#bitmap_load="YES"
#bitmap_name="/boot/loading-screen.pcx"
hw.ata.atapi_dma="1"
autoboot_delay="5"
kern.ipc.shmseg=1024
kern.ipc.shmmni=1024
legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1
legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1
wpi_load="YES"
kqemu_load="YES"
aio_load="YES"
if_tap_load="YES"
nvidia_load="YES"

With this help I don't have anymore Lockup and I have Fully HW Acceleration with my 6800 GT

I hope this can help someone that facing my same problem.

Bye