From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 15 15:03:28 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 42C4416A418 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:03:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beni@brinckman.info) Received: from lmailproxy01.edpnet.net (lmailproxy01.edpnet.net [212.71.1.194]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D53E713C45A for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:03:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beni@brinckman.info) Received: from [192.168.1.101] (212.71.5.113.fixedpower.by.edpnet.be [212.71.5.113]) by lmailproxy01.edpnet.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l8FFAGmN027658 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:10:16 +0200 From: beni To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:02:40 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <447imtz5n5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <448x78m0z2.fsf@Lowell-Desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <448x78m0z2.fsf@Lowell-Desk.lan> X-Face: $,~&QrDrInYiH(ZUXjNH_0r4q\`w83!}&; +8c.K[`NnZwV|m$5N{NCkWesaR.9|yqIC[<=?utf-8?q?d=0A=09P0?="xTw:F|)_r*WC\f8lz)g=a; 93dz2mP7iv)LLzBd; 6^Y:=*>@U; _\+4( MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1598196.Py6q2Hvvz9"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200709151502.44146.beni@brinckman.info> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.91.2, clamav-milter version 0.91.2 on lmailproxy01.edpnet.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_50 autolearn=disabled version=3.1.9 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.9 (2007-02-13) on lmailproxy01.edpnet.net Subject: Re: nVidia driver with Xorg 7.3? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: beni@brinckman.info List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:03:28 -0000 --nextPart1598196.Py6q2Hvvz9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 15 September 2007 14:56:17 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > 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. I am using kdm and with adding=20 Section "ServerFlags" Option "IgnoreAbi" "on" EndSection to my /etc/X11/xorg.conf now xorg starts fine. Except that linux-firefox wo= n't=20 start up now...=20 =2D-=20 Beni. --nextPart1598196.Py6q2Hvvz9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBG6/QQbi2dLge3mRURAnCIAJ9LN6kAhIaqVUH8vpqlYl+Bc3IgzwCfajFl m/55Ajs1yRnXLbi634BXyyo= =GPfJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1598196.Py6q2Hvvz9--