From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 24 08:44:18 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3419E106566B for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2011 08:44:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darcsis@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEA058FC0C for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2011 08:44:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iadj38 with SMTP id j38so18834416iad.13 for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:44:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:references:user-agent:x-envelope-to :mail-followup-to:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; bh=pp2syR0gAo1NebVM2ABK6JXYZrsbtKWjC9n5Synruog=; b=HzfTcdspKNab5AbA/VVtdDzQfcVhq/JAaAKGCMJLSTKxtFJ/c5749Enq3sqY02tlar fuM0Vcp/xyrd5o0JifOOLRbyL2kh/ksmZ6/2UdzHYeZmv/SJD/9EF2sFVyb6k30G8O84 Fd/MWQ8HIN4Te8tZZIuzSdxoUPDDJCjor+BU0= Received: by 10.50.181.136 with SMTP id dw8mr17194432igc.6.1324716257301; Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:44:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ([123.117.37.75]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g34sm50695348ibk.10.2011.12.24.00.44.10 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:44:15 -0800 (PST) From: darcsis@gmail.com (Denise H. G.) To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" 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> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (berkeley-unix) X-Envelope-To: conrads@cox.net Mail-Followup-To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, danfe@freebsd.org, bland@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 16:44:04 +0800 Message-ID: <87ehvugy0b.fsf@pluton.xbsd.name> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain 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)? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 08:44:18 -0000 On 2011/12/24 at 08:41, "Conrad J. Sabatier" 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 > ................ -- Once you go FreeBSD, you don't need a Mac.