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Date:      Sat, 17 Jan 2015 21:22:06 -0800
From:      Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
To:        Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: CURRENT breaks loading of nvidia.so
Message-ID:  <CAN6yY1uqTcphgsw6a8hv_S7oY2rMhi0NY9tGZKzqVqR9E9Ge=Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150118043426.GF91189@rancor.immure.com>
References:  <20150117151806.GE91189@rancor.immure.com> <54BA8380.4060108@selasky.org> <20150117154837.GL1151@albert.catwhisker.org> <20150118043426.GF91189@rancor.immure.com>

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On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 07:48:37AM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 04:45:04PM +0100, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > The nvidia-driver package needs to be recompiled with the latest
> > > FreeBSD-current sources, because of changes in the callout subsystem.
> > >
> > > If this is not possible, we can temporarily add the
> "_callout_stop_safe"
> > > symbol to the kernel for some transition time.
> > > ...
> >
> > While I'm running i386 (vs. amd64), I have not encountered the cited
> > issue.
> >
> > Given the above, I suspect that the fact that I have the line:
> >
> > PORTS_MODULES=x11/nvidia-driver
> >
> >
> > in /etc/src.conf has a fair amount of (positive) influence on that.
> >
> > (I track stable/10 & head -- on different slices -- daily on my laptop.)
> >
> > Peace,
> > david
>
> Thanks ALL! Adding the PORTS_MODULES=x11/nvidia-driver line to my
> /etc/src.conf
> file and rebuilding the kernel fixed it!
>
> Learn something new every day!  :)
>

Can anyone tell me where  PORTS_MODULES is documented? I don't find it in
the Handbook. It's not in src.conf(5). I've known of it since Doug B. (I
thing) wrote it. This is a very beneficial tool. It really needs to be well
documented.
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com



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