From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 15 14:56:43 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 04C5E16A421 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:56:43 +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 CEC6213C46B for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:56:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from Lowell-Desk.lan (Lowell-Desk.lan [172.30.250.6]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 741D728426; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:56:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: by Lowell-Desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 7AFB31CC3C; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:56:18 -0400 (EDT) To: Lowell Gilbert References: <44myvpz9u5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <46EA959C.5060206@xbsd.org> <447imtz5n5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:56:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <447imtz5n5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> (Lowell Gilbert's message of "Fri\, 14 Sep 2007 10\:24\:46 -0400") Message-ID: <448x78m0z2.fsf@Lowell-Desk.lan> 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: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Florent Thoumie 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: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:56:43 -0000 Lowell Gilbert writes: > 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). 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.