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Date:      Tue, 29 Nov 2005 20:02:07 +0000
From:      RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Upgrading to 60 question.
Message-ID:  <200511292002.09257.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
In-Reply-To: <200511291053.13919.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>
References:  <200511281206.57300.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> <200511291516.58082.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> <200511291053.13919.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>

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On Tuesday 29 November 2005 18:53, Vizion wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 November 2005 07:16,  the author RW contributed to the
> dialogue on-
>
>  Re: Upgrading to 60 question.:
> >On Tuesday 29 November 2005 14:01, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> >> The ports will continue to work, but you should update them when you
> >> get a chance so that they link against the 6.0 libraries instead of
> >> the old ones.
> >
> >One exception is nvidia-driver, you must remove the driver from
> > loader.conf and rebuild against 6.0 before re-enabling it.
>
> Umph
>
> just checked loader.conf and the file is blank
>
> Man nv(4) refers to the nvidia driver - I am not certain where/how the
> driver is being loaded -- X must be using it!
> any ideas?

nv is the open-source driver. It's nvidia's own  driver (in the 
x11/nvidia-driver port) that's causes a problem.



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