Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:56:19 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New nvidia driver will not install on 6-Stable system Message-ID: <20071031205619.4C2D845028@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:53:31 -0000." <4728CF2B.50504@xbsd.org>
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--==_Exmh_1193864179_69285P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:53:31 +0000 > From: Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> > > Kevin Oberman wrote: > > When I try to update to the latest x11/nvidia-driver, it won't install > > due to an error when making the safety copy of libwfb.so. > > > > ===> Checking if x11/nvidia-driver already installed > > mv: rename /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so to /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/XXX-libwfb.so.%%.xorg-server-1.4_1,1: No such file or directory > > *** Error code 1 > > > > Any fix for this? > > > > If this driver brings the ABI up to 2.0 I will just force it. I always > > forget to enter the -- -ignoreABI the first time I log in in the morning > > It does bring the API up to 2.0. The error isn't too important, so > forcing it will be ok as long as you keep using the nvidia-driver as it > provides its own libnvidia-wfb.so. For some reason, libwfb.so isn't > installed on your system. It's provided by xorg-server. > > You're not the first person to report it, but I can't reproduce it here. > > -- > Florent Thoumie > flz@FreeBSD.org > FreeBSD Committer > I think danfe has the answer to what is happening. It is having an old version of the nvidia-driver installed which has already overwritten libwfb. I suspect that re-installing xorg-server and then upgrading nvidia-driver would work. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --==_Exmh_1193864179_69285P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFHKOvzkn3rs5h7N1ERAv2GAJ4oy5vSXJLrAYoFjdstoG2Q3NKKuwCgitiM g2d49sEAM2c5x1NS+EgvjqA= =jYpz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1193864179_69285P--
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