From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 8 23:51:48 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 486B716A4E6 for ; Sun, 8 May 2005 23:51:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nic.ach.sch.gr (nic.sch.gr [194.63.238.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D346243D88 for ; Sun, 8 May 2005 23:51:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@linux.gr) Received: (qmail 5000 invoked by uid 207); 8 May 2005 23:51:45 -0000 Received: from keramida@linux.gr by nic by uid 201 with qmail-scanner-1.21 (sophie: 3.04/2.19/3.81. Clear:RC:1(81.186.70.51):. Processed in 0.404257 secs); 08 May 2005 23:51:45 -0000 Received: from dialup51.ach.sch.gr (HELO gothmog.gr) ([81.186.70.51]) (envelope-sender ) by nic.sch.gr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 8 May 2005 23:51:44 -0000 Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j48Npf1K015574; Mon, 9 May 2005 02:51:41 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@linux.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j48Npf1i015573; Mon, 9 May 2005 02:51:41 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@linux.gr) Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 02:51:40 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: David Gurvich Message-ID: <20050508235140.GA15530@gothmog.gr> References: <200505081828.08055.david.freebsd@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200505081828.08055.david.freebsd@verizon.net> cc: Leonidas Tsampros cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using nvidia-driver with 6-x/CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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, 08 May 2005 23:51:48 -0000 On 2005-05-08 18:28, David Gurvich wrote: > I was able to install v.7174 from the port after modifying nv-freebsd.h. > This consisted of commenting out the portion where an error is given if the > freebsd version is greater than 6. Leonidas (whom I have Cc:'ed) mentioned something similar. > At present the driver seems to be working fine. I have noticed no > difference in operation from 5.3-RELEASE. If this is true, then the maintainer of the port can update it I guess. It may take some care and testing to see that things don't break for releases other than 4.X though, since the port has to support 4.9 or later too ;-) - Giorgos