Workaround: x11/nvidia-driver with UEFI boot on FreeBSD 10.1

Unfortunately, the UEFI boot loader on FreeBSD 10.1 doesn't play nicely with the proprietary Nvidia driver, x11/nvidia-driver. When I try to load it in loader.conf(5), I experience a kernel panic.

The workaround is to remove the entry from /boot/loader.conf and instead load the driver in rc.conf(5), by appending the following line to /etc/rc.conf:
Code:
kld_list="nvidia"
The issue may be related to PR 193770.
 
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