From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 24 20:53:43 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 26CA6693; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:53:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-x22e.google.com (mail-ie0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::22e]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DF7B79A; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:53:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f174.google.com with SMTP id rl12so9689667iec.19 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 12:53:42 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=+bmaB6iqr/UN0yRX66EyHP5DYKCMqwnVVwOK+qk0tV4=; b=ul6nB8jXUK5VgC1v6PkQ2dxR2EgZ1oVqFfcQppCTycOa8N96VmclX21JTmp29BbZ6W 9oah50tnmW3n2OOxkHQPBA7TeGKF0jZiWLQwg6mKHJmQXoWGWKxx9cbJ9CFGtw6bYfvE nlqlpRUQGg3N5Wrh5JrQegkbdFuQzeJvVSCit13x+6GA6qDZG4AsyXfNahOJLuhn/mWX zMmHIyrSPyIi+jDBYAN4uBxCplBt8goTRiPlk653cGY7kL2NURUA3l2lFU0kdzotzLdo vU74GY5srphhx8feYciYP7lshbmUc+zYMqG8u9naUUcB8epVQNSYoGjkDTIzI+m8xbfz Rz5w== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.43.75.138 with SMTP id za10mr22637805icb.23.1416862422318; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 12:53:42 -0800 (PST) Sender: kob6558@gmail.com Received: by 10.107.7.169 with HTTP; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 12:53:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 12:53:42 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: RQYiHy6Xi2s0rN8h2sMocpI6Ug8 Message-ID: Subject: Re: GNOME3 and nvidia-driver From: Kevin Oberman To: Jonathan Chen Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: "freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org" , FreeBSD Ports ML X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:53:43 -0000 On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Jonathan Chen wrote: > Hi, > > The latest GNOME3 update doesn't appear to live well with > nvidia-driver. I'm attempting to build gnome3, but it's failing during > the configure of graphics/cogl (required by graphics/cogl, required by > graphics/clutter, required by accessibility/caribou): > > ... > checking for GLIB - version >= 2.32.0... yes (version 2.42.0) > checking EGL/egl.h usability... no > checking EGL/egl.h presence... no > checking for EGL/egl.h... no > configure: error: Unable to locate required EGL headers > ===> Script "configure" failed unexpectedly. > ... > > Hmm. Okay, a quick search reveals graphics/libEGL has the headers. > # cd /usr/ports/graphics/libEGL && make install clean > ... > ===> Checking if libEGL already installed > ===> Registering installation for libEGL-10.3.3 > pkg-static: libEGL-10.3.3 conflicts with nvidia-driver-340.46 > (installs files into the same place). Problematic file: > /usr/local/lib/libEGL.so > *** Error code 70 > > Stop. > make: stopped in /usr/ports/graphics/libEGL > > What should I do? > > Cheers > -- > Jonathan Chen > Switch to Mate? ;-) I'll be doing this shortly, so it's not entirely facetious. After some time with Gnome3 on Linux, I switched to Mate and have been very happy with it. (Mate is a fork of Gnome2.) Cinnamon is another option. It is GTK3 based, but retains the customisability of Gnome2. I have only very limited experience with it. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com