From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 8 5:33:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8F6737B401 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 05:33:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.uc3m.es (smtp01.uc3m.es [163.117.136.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF0FA43E3B for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 05:33:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jrh@it.uc3m.es) Received: from smtp01.uc3m.es (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.uc3m.es (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D96943222; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 14:33:47 +0100 (CET) Received: from it.uc3m.es (mira.it.uc3m.es [163.117.140.166]) by smtp01.uc3m.es (Postfix) with ESMTP id 392B999E65; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 14:33:47 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3DCBBD3B.F5F1861@it.uc3m.es> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 14:33:47 +0100 From: Juan Francisco Rodriguez Hervella X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erik Trulsson Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Will official-NVIDIA-driver for 4.7 work with -CURRENT ? References: <3DCBB7EC.13E6DD09@it.uc3m.es> <20021108132233.GD19789@student.uu.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Erik Trulsson wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 02:11:08PM +0100, Juan Francisco Rodriguez Hervella wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've just seen the release of FreeBSD-NVIDIA driver for > > FreeBSD-4.7 > > > > Will this driver work with -CURRENT ?¿ > > > > PS: http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=freebsd_1.0-3203 > > The README file found at the above URL claims that: > > > FreeBSD -STABLE versions older than 4.7 and FreeBSD -CURRENT are > not supported. > > > So I guess the answer is no. > It is of course possible that it might work anyway even if NVIDIA don't > support it but since a kernel module is involved and those are generally > not portable between major releases it is not very likely it will work. > I've seen that... so, the only possibility we've got is to cry loudly at NVIDIA people and ask them to make a driver for -CURRENT.... (I shouldn't install -CURRENT on my home computer :( -- JFRH. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message