From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 27 14:07:58 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 52301AC for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:07:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Received: from nightmare.dreamchaser.org (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [12.32.44.142]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17D768FC08 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:07:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from breakaway.dreamchaser.org (breakaway.dreamchaser.org. [12.32.36.73]) by nightmare.dreamchaser.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id q9RDoAEe057737 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 07:50:10 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Message-ID: <508BE692.9000800@dreamchaser.org> Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 07:50:10 -0600 From: Gary Aitken User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120609 Thunderbird/13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: nvidia driver on amd64 (for asus nvidia gt 610) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [12.32.36.65]); Sat, 27 Oct 2012 07:50:10 -0600 (MDT) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@dreamchaser.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:07:58 -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 just 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