From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 10 12:11:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84E2516A4CF for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 12:11:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from endif.cjb.net (65-101-229-205.dnvr.qwest.net [65.101.229.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4326843F93 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 12:11:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from end@endif.cjb.net) Received: (qmail 67711 invoked from network); 10 Nov 2003 20:12:01 -0000 Received: from localhost (end@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Nov 2003 20:12:01 -0000 Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:12:01 -0700 From: Robin Schoonover To: "Karel J. Bosschaart" Message-Id: <20031110131201.477e1aee.end@endif.cjb.net> In-Reply-To: <20031110200124.GA49425@phys9911.phys.tue.nl> References: <20031109145538.0aa4ce3d.end@endif.cjb.net> <20031110091130.GA11620@phys9911.phys.tue.nl> <20031110102134.13db5376.end@endif.cjb.net> <20031110190056.GA48992@phys9911.phys.tue.nl> <20031110122930.0e72e2f0.end@endif.cjb.net> <20031110200124.GA49425@phys9911.phys.tue.nl> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Enemy Territory X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 20:11:47 -0000 On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:01:24 +0100, "Karel J. Bosschaart" wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:29:30PM -0700, Robin Schoonover wrote: > > > > Or maybe it was only partially installed (and some of the opengl libs > > weren't). That doesn't make sense... So I reinstalled the > > nvidia-driver from ports, and tried running tuxracer again. Doh! > > Crashed X. Of course, GLX isn't loaded, so it gets confused, so I'll > > just have to restart X....and I get this message: > > > > (II) [GLX]: Initializing GLX extension > > > > Well, that looks promising. Fire up Descent 3 and....Wow. Descent 3 > > is a lot different from the first one. So much higher resolution... > > > > Well, thanks for the help. (although this may be a bad thing..how will > > I get -anything- real done??) > > > Maybe you did a portupgrade or reinstall of XFree86-Server? This will > overwrite some files installed by the nvidia driver. I'm always > reinstalling nvidia-driver after upgrading XFree86-Server/libraries > just to be sure. It's also necessary to reinstall the nvidia driver > after upgrading FreeBSD. I just realized that was exactly what happened. (I already had been remembering to reinstall nvidia-driver after updating FreeBSD, but forgot about XFree86) > I prefer to reboot the machine after any nvidia-driver reinstall to > be entirely sure that I have the newest kernel module loaded. Yes, > that's ugly, but I got a bit reluctant on kldunload/kldload'ing this > sort of critical things. My home desktop doesn't have a large uptime > anyway as I'm turning it off if I don't need it. I know the nvidia driver is the same. I didn't even have this machine before the last update (July). (But it might be a good idea anyway...) -- Robin Schoonover (aka End) # # Instant ice: just add water and freeze. #