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Subject: Re: Upgrade xorg 7.2 breaks legacy nvidia 1.0-9631 driver ...
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Kiffin Gish wrote:
> After I upgraded to xorg 7.2, I cannot get things to work anymore with my
> legacy nvidia 1.0-9631 driver (I have a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop).
> 
> Originally, I downloaded the FreeBSD legacy driver from the official nvidia
> website and installed it under the then current X11BASE=/usr/X11R6.
> Everything worked just fine.
> 
> Until the upgrade to xorg 7.2, that is.
> 
> As instructed in the upgrade instructions, I changed ModulePath to
> "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules" in xorg.conf, which I suspect is the root of
> my problems, since the original working driver has remained installed in the
> old X11BASE.
> 
> I've tried to install the driver from the nvidia-driver-9631 ports
> directory, but after struggling forever with all kinds of errors, I gave up
> and figured the best approach would be to somehow use my current setup,
> possibly copying and or linking to the right place.
> 
> Should I just reinstall the driver, but which X11BASE? How to remove the
> original files without messing up my system even more?
> 
> But I am not sure where to begin. Are there any kind folks out there who can
> give me a hand? 
> 
> Thanks alot in advance.
> 

Start with reading /usr/ports/UPDATING