Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 06:42:55 -0500 From: jeffc@supranet.net To: Olivier Smedts <olivier@gid0.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nvidia-driver won't build with 6.2-STABLE-200705 and xorg 7.2 Message-ID: <1180006975.46557a3fd7297@mail.supranet.net> In-Reply-To: <18615750.421180006545953.JavaMail.zimbra@s.gid0.org> References: <18615750.421180006545953.JavaMail.zimbra@s.gid0.org>
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Quoting Olivier Smedts <olivier@gid0.org>: > ----- jeffc@supranet.net wrote: > > The May snapshot FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE-200705 appropriately has no xorg, > > but after > > a portsnap fetch, pkg_add -r xorg successfully (it runs) installed > > xorg 7..2. > > However trying to build nvidia-driver from ports fails with: > > > > [...] > > ===> x11 (install) > > ===> x11/driver (install) > > install: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers: No such file or directory > > *** Error code 71 > > If you "mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers", then install should work. > But the question is "why hasn't this directory been created ?". Maybe you > didn't have the "x11/xorg" metaport installed before installing nvidia-driver > ? I installed xorg using pkg_add -r. Maybe that was my mistake and I should use ports instead? Cheers, Jeff C.
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