From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 3 07:50:27 2004 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 745DF16A4CE for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 07:50:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from itchy.rabson.org (mailgate.nlsystems.com [80.177.232.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7BD143D1F for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 07:50:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from ns0.nlsystems.com (ns0.nlsystems.com [80.177.232.243]) by itchy.rabson.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i737oOF2004433; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 08:50:24 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) From: Doug Rabson To: "Daniel O'Connor" Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 08:50:21 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <1091385943.873.4.camel@taxman> <1091513552.4226.4.camel@einstein.local.nfy> <200408031610.42962.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200408031610.42962.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408030850.21370.dfr@nlsystems.com> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on itchy.rabson.org X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.71, clamav-milter version 0.71 X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: Mayo Jordanov cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nvidia binary drivers no longer work 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: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 07:50:27 -0000 On Tuesday 03 August 2004 07:40, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 15:42, Mayo Jordanov wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 01:38, Doug Rabson wrote: > > > On Sunday 01 August 2004 19:45, Stefan Ehmann wrote: > > > > After today's cvsup the system freezes when I try to start X > > > > using the nvidia binary driver. The nv driver still works. > > > > > > > > ~1 week old kernel doesn't have this problem. > > > > > > If you can be patient, there will be a new release of the nvidia > > > binary driver fairly soon (which also supports libpthread and > > > libthr). > > > > Do you have any idea if it has/will have support for the 5700 > > chipset? > > I'd imagine it would be of a similar vintage to the latest Linux > driver, so it should support newer cards like that. > > The linux driver is at 61.06, the win32 driver 61.77. The notes for > the linux driver say it adds support for the 6800, so I imagine the > 5700 is supported. The pre-release drivers I've been using are in the 61.xx series.