Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 16:44:04 +0800
From: darcsis@gmail.com (Denise H. G.)
To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net>
Cc: danfe@freebsd.org, bland@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: x11/nvidia-{driver, settings, xconfig}: why not the latest available version (290.10)?
Message-ID: <87ehvugy0b.fsf@pluton.xbsd.name>
In-Reply-To: <20111223184142.2264e72e@cox.net> (Conrad J. Sabatier's message of "Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:41:42 -0600")
References: <20111223184142.2264e72e@cox.net>
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On 2011/12/24 at 08:41, "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Just wondering why the x11/nvidia-{driver,settings,xconfig} ports have
> yet to be updated to the latest version (290.10). Are there any known
> issues with any of these newer versions that would make such an upgrade
> ill-advised?
>
> FWIW, I've been running nvidia-driver version 290.10 since shortly after
> it was made available on the Nvidia site, and haven't run across any
> issues that can be directly attributed to the driver, at least, not to
> the best of my knowledge.
290.10 has some issues on text redrawing as far I experience. I have
also been running 290.10 for quite a while. Some apps, especially emacs
and gnome-terminal will fail redrawing text areas while, e.g. scrolling.
And x11 cursor cannot sometimes be displayed correctly.
When I downgrade to 285.09.05, things seem to be OK.
>
> As an aside, I've also been wondering for quite a while now why the
> nvidia-driver port isn't under the x11-drivers category, rather than
> simply x11. Not awfully important, just curious. :-)
>
> --
> Conrad J. Sabatier
> conrads@cox.net
> ................
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