From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 27 14:01:13 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D221EF6D for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:01:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vagabond@blackfoot.net) Received: from mx1.blackfoot.net (mx1.blackfoot.net [216.14.232.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A43508FC18 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:01:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.blackfoot.net ([12.32.35.49]) by mx1.blackfoot.net ({9cf3d135-7b6e-4041-a57b-61a932741f4e}) via TCP (outbound) with ESMTP id 20121027135734758 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 13:57:34 +0000 X-RC-FROM: X-RC-RCPT: Received: from webmail.blackfoot.net (w3-1.int-net.blackfoot.net [192.168.100.27]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.blackfoot.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.1ubuntu1) with ESMTP id q9RDvXTs030916 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 07:57:34 -0600 Received: from 12.32.36.73 (SquirrelMail authenticated user vagabond) by webmail.blackfoot.net with HTTP; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 07:57:34 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <48144.12.32.36.73.1351346254.squirrel@webmail.blackfoot.net> Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 07:57:34 -0600 (MDT) Subject: nvidia driver on amd64 (for asus nvidia gt 610) From: "Gary Aitken" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.10a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-MAG-OUTBOUND: blackfoot.redcondor.net@12.32.35.49/32 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:01:13 -0000 running 9.0 release Being frustrated with my radeon hd-5550 video card which occasionally (once a week or so) goes into some kind of reset loop, filling up Xorg.0.log and crashing the system because /var is full... I picked up an asus nvidia gt 610. Downloaded the nvidia driver and tried to build it. make ominously reports: ld: Relocatable linking with relocations from format elf32-i386-freebsd (nv-kernel.o) to format elf64-x86-64-freebsd (nvidia.ko) is not supported. Where is the elf32-i386-freebsd stuff coming from? I unpacked the driver in a tmp directory and did a make install there. I found the following which implied it is a make problem in 9.0: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-toolchain/2011-August/000265.html I'm guessing it can be made to work but I need to define appropriate make architecture variables, and I'm not sure how to do dat. Hints? BTW, can anyone explain why Xorg.*.log doesn't get closed and a new file opened when it gets rather large and then rotate the way syslogs normally do? It seems to rotate only when the server is restarted, or at least that's all I've observed. Thanks, Gary