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Date:      Tue, 14 Jan 2014 14:00:46 -0800 (PST)
From:      Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   ports/185782: x11/nvidia-driver amd64 does not work, when installed via pkg, but works when installed via ports
Message-ID:  <201401142200.s0EM0jen002663@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk>
Resent-Message-ID: <201401142210.s0EMA0mo009143@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         185782
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       x11/nvidia-driver amd64 does not work, when installed via pkg, but works when installed via ports
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jan 14 22:10:00 UTC 2014
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Anton Shterenlikht
>Release:        FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT amd64
>Organization:
University of Bristol 
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #8 r257910: Fri Dec 27 23:46:32 GMT 2013 root@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MINKY amd64


	
>Description:

x11/nvidia-driver
when installed via pkg, e.g. with pkg upgrade gives this error:

KLD nvidia.ko: depends on kernel - not available or version mismatch
linker_load_file: Unsupported file type

However, when installed via ports directly,
there is no error.

The device is:

vgapci0@pci0:1:0:0:     class=0x030000 card=0x20d917aa chip=0x040c10de rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
    device     = 'G84M [Quadro FX 570M]'
    class      = display
    subclass   = VGA

or from dmesg:

# dmesg|grep vga
vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0x2000-0x207f mem 0xd6000000-0xd6ffffff,0xe0000000-0xefffffff,0xd4000000-0xd5ffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
nvidia0: <Quadro FX 570M> on vgapci0
vgapci0: child nvidia0 requested pci_enable_io
vgapci0: child nvidia0 requested pci_enable_io
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0

	
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