Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 11:19:08 -0400 From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> To: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> Cc: Michal Varga <varga@stonehenge.sk> Subject: Re: nvidia binary drivers no longer work Message-ID: <16655.44268.324878.440943@canoe.dclg.ca> In-Reply-To: <1091466796.575.9.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org> References: <20040802102249.2107716A4DD@hub.freebsd.org> <1091466796.575.9.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org>
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>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> writes: Paul> On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 23:07:59 +0200, Michal Varga Paul> <varga@stonehenge.sk> wrote: >> Same here, stopped working about three days ago. Athlon 2500+, >> GeForce 2 MX400, xorg-server-6.7.0_5, freezes when initializing >> video card. Open source drive works fine as usually. >> >> The problem seems to be not kernel related, use of two week old >> kernel compiled on a different box didn't solve anything, so i >> suppose the new GCC has something to do with this. Rebuilt nvidia >> driver with no effect, xorg was not rebuilt yet, want to give it a >> try sometime. If someone tried that already, you can save me a lot >> of time by sending a notice.. (the system is very unstable after >> all the latest changes in -current, so i suppose i will take 5-6 >> panics or lockups until i will be able to recompile xorg >> succesfully, if ever..) Paul> I don't think the GCC 3.4.2 import broke it. I have a -CURRENT Paul> kernel+world built post-import and the nVidia driver still works Paul> for me. (I did have to rebuilt the nvidia-driver port via Paul> "portupgrade -fu" though: the original installed version locked Paul> up my system when starting X.) My kernel is dated "Sat Jul 31 Paul> 23:08:22 EDT 2004," and I think that's from sources cvsupped Paul> sometime late 30th July/early 31st July. One possible difference: I'm still using XFree84-4 ... and a current from Sunday ... things are working. Possibly something to do with xorg is broken? Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================
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