Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 19:18:49 -0400 From: Ralph Ellis <ralphellis1@netscape.ca> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Is nvidia-driver 256.53 expected to work on -current? Message-ID: <4CBB8459.1090507@netscape.ca> In-Reply-To: <4CBB7EE6.3040102@FreeBSD.org> References: <4CBB7EE6.3040102@FreeBSD.org>
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Doug Barton wrote: > Y'all will probably recall that I had a lot of problems with the > nvidia-driver, and video generally (esp. flash) on i386 -current. Well > I haven't had any problems recently because I haven't been using > FreeBSD. :) But I have things I need to catch up on, so here's what I > did: > > 1. Bought a new hard drive, and installed a snapshot of amd64 -current > (this was actually done a while ago). > 2. Yesterday I started configuring stuff, updated my source and ports > trees, rebuilt the world, customized the kernel, etc. > 3. With a newly up to date system I built the latest version of the > nvidia-driver port, and started using it. > > My experience with it has been exactly the same as older versions of > the port on previous versions of i386 -current. Sometimes it runs fine > for a while, but whe n I exit the window manager (openbox) the system > hangs and I never get back to the command prompt. (I'm using startx to > try and minimize the number of variables.) Sometimes it will work fine > for an hour, maybe two, then the whole thing just hangs. All the stuff > is displayed on the screen, but the mouse won't move, I can't zap X, > or even switch to the console. I have to power off. This is > particularly frustrating because I haven't even loaded flash (or for > that matter firefox) yet. > > Windows and linux (ubuntu, with the nvidia driver) work great on this > same hardware, so I'm pretty thoroughly convinced that the problem is > with freebsd/current somewhere. In addition to the -current partition > I also installed amd64 8.1-RELEASE so I'll give that a go next, but I > wanted to ask here first if anyone else was having problems on -current. > > > Doug > I am currently running the Nvidia 195 driver on amd64 9 - current from the ports tree. It works without problems. When I tried to compile the 256 driver, it would not compile and said that it was not meant to work with 9 - current. Hope this helps. Ralph Ellis ralphellis1@netscape.ca
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