Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:56:17 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> Subject: Re: nVidia driver with Xorg 7.3? Message-ID: <448x78m0z2.fsf@Lowell-Desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <447imtz5n5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> (Lowell Gilbert's message of "Fri\, 14 Sep 2007 10\:24\:46 -0400") References: <pan.2007.09.14.04.49.58@sremick.net> <44myvpz9u5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <46EA959C.5060206@xbsd.org> <447imtz5n5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> writes: > Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> writes: > >> Lowell Gilbert wrote: >>> "Scott I. Remick" <scott@sremick.net> 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). For some reason xdm is using /usr/local/share/examples/xdm/Xservers instead of /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers. From some other messages on the FreeBSD lists, this seems to be a known problem; but so far I can't see why it's happening to fix it. But with the -ignoreABI passed to the X executable in that file, everything works. I tried the documented "IgnoreABI" option in the xorg.conf file, but that didn't seem to have any effect at all.
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