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Date:      Mon, 18 Oct 2010 01:56:14 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Ralph Ellis <ralphellis1@netscape.ca>, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Is nvidia-driver 256.53 expected to work on -current?
Message-ID:  <20101018015614.GB83761@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20101017233200.GA69700@freebsd.org>
References:  <4CBB7EE6.3040102@FreeBSD.org> <4CBB8459.1090507@netscape.ca> <20101017233200.GA69700@freebsd.org>

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On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 11:32:00PM +0000, Alexander Best wrote:
> 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.

Or install from ports, which also patch the driver to support -CURRENT.

./danfe



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