Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:21:23 +0100 From: Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New nvidia driver will not install on 6-Stable system Message-ID: <1193858483.868.23.camel@xenon.stonehenge.sk> In-Reply-To: <20071031184844.6BF5A4500E@ptavv.es.net> References: <20071031184844.6BF5A4500E@ptavv.es.net>
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On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 11:48 -0700, 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? > Don't know about a proper fix, but a simple workaround I did: As "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so" didn't even exist in my latest Xorg installation (I'd suspect some overlook by nvidia-driver port's maintainer), I don't need to care if it (and what) will get backed up as XXX-xxxxxxx, so simple # touch /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so # portupgrade -v nvidia-driver did the trick. m. -- Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com> Stonehenge
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