From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 17 23:32:00 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1233) id C8DD01065673; Sun, 17 Oct 2010 23:32:00 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 23:32:00 +0000 From: Alexander Best To: Ralph Ellis Message-ID: <20101017233200.GA69700@freebsd.org> References: <4CBB7EE6.3040102@FreeBSD.org> <4CBB8459.1090507@netscape.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4CBB8459.1090507@netscape.ca> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Alexey Dokuchaev , Doug Barton Subject: Re: Is nvidia-driver 256.53 expected to work on -current? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 23:32:00 -0000 On Sun Oct 17 10, Ralph Ellis wrote: > 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. i'm running 256.52 on HEAD (amd64) without any issues. the 260.X drivers all freze my computer when i exit X. it's quite easy to work around the isse that the nvidia drivers fail to compile on HEAD. simply change the line #if __FreeBSD_version >= 900000 in src/nv-freebsd.h to #if __FreeBSD_version >= 1000000. cheers. alex > Hope this helps. > Ralph Ellis > ralphellis1@netscape.ca > > -- a13x