Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:35:14 -0500 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "alan bryan" <alanbryan1234@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nVidia driver works on -current? Message-ID: <op.sth8k01y9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <20050706182031.68327.qmail@web50308.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050706182031.68327.qmail@web50308.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:20:31 -0500, alan bryan <alanbryan1234@yahoo.com> wrote: > Can anyone tell me if the nVidia display driver > (ports/x11/nvidia-driver) works on current? The Yes, it works fine as long if you use my patch. Without patch, it will not build with newer -CURRENT because -CURRENT no longer has bus_memio.h. http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/diff/nvidia-driver.diff Cheers, Mezz > nVidia README says it's not "supported" but I'm > wondering if it still works. Since 5.x and 6.x are > fairly close I'm thinking it might still work and > wondering if anyone has it working - if so I'll try it > out myself. > > Thanks, > Alan > > (Here's the relevant part of the README) > __________________________________________________________________________ > > (sec-01) SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS > __________________________________________________________________________ > > The offical minimum software requirements for the > NVIDIA FreeBSD Driver > Set are: > > - FreeBSD 5-STABLE (FreeBSD 5.3 or later) > > Please review sec-05: CHOOSING THE AGP GART DRIVER > for AGP related > information. > > - kernel source tree in /usr/src/sys (package 'ssys' > installed) > > - Xorg 6.7.0 or XFree86 4.2 and greater > > > FreeBSD -STABLE versions older than FreeBSD 5.3 and > FreeBSD 6.x -CURRENT > development snapshots are not supported. -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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