From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 9 00:37:11 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 3D8EB16A4E6 for ; Mon, 9 May 2005 00:37:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA81043D46 for ; Mon, 9 May 2005 00:37:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j490au38032969; Mon, 9 May 2005 10:06:57 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 10:06:46 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200505081828.08055.david.freebsd@verizon.net> <20050508235140.GA15530@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20050508235140.GA15530@gothmog.gr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart29358887.4qXVQ3dqGY"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200505091006.48132.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.2 () IN_REP_TO,MIME_LONG_LINE_QP,PGP_SIGNATURE_2,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: Leonidas Tsampros cc: David Gurvich cc: Giorgos Keramidas 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: Mon, 09 May 2005 00:37:11 -0000 --nextPart29358887.4qXVQ3dqGY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, 9 May 2005 09:21, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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. Works fine here too (Fx5200 Go) > > 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 ;-) The 7174 driver only supports 5.3 onwards. I presume nVidia made it so it will bail on -current so they don't have to= =20 support it as much () Also, if we're talking about the port can it modify the makefile so the KLD= =20 installs into /boot/kernel? Going into /boot/modules is a recipe for user=20 frustration :( =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart29358887.4qXVQ3dqGY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCfrCg5ZPcIHs/zowRAsMuAKCJWOO5iiaeoNHG9esIFo5vdOVbnwCfeLAY h98B7UvBF1T3eUeIEWAAKmM= =aje2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart29358887.4qXVQ3dqGY--