From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 14 14:24:47 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EDD816A417 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:24:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.78.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70D4113C442 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:24:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 7C20A28488; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:24:46 -0400 (EDT) To: Florent Thoumie References: <44myvpz9u5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <46EA959C.5060206@xbsd.org> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:24:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <46EA959C.5060206@xbsd.org> (Florent Thoumie's message of "Fri\, 14 Sep 2007 15\:07\:24 +0100") Message-ID: <447imtz5n5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.99 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "Scott I. Remick" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nVidia driver with Xorg 7.3? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:24:47 -0000 Florent Thoumie writes: > Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> "Scott I. Remick" writes: >> >>> Anyone tried the current nVidia-driver with the new X.org 7.3? I >>> heard that there was a general (non-FreeBSD-specific) >>> incompatibility, but just saw that 7.3 was now in the ports system. >> >> It's broken. Apparently the X.org drop uses a new ABI. [Thanks for >> the note; I wouldn't have fully tested my upgrade otherwise.] >> >> I guess I'll be dropping back to the open-source "nv" driver for now. >> Mssr. Thoumie: could you add a warning to the UPDATING entry? > > Thanks for reminding me, will do in a second. > > You have to make sure the Composite extension is disabled and start > Xorg with startx -- -ignoreABI. Having finally taken a minute to think about it, I'm fairly sure that putting that option into the command line in /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers will have the same effect, for xdm. However, I won't have a chance to produce a full (tested) recipe until tomorrow (perhaps tonight). Be well.