From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 9 00:08:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99E8237B401 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 00:08:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (ns0.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4CA543F75 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 00:08:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) h5977ME6094968 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 9 Jun 2003 08:08:43 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)h5977I99094967; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 08:07:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 08:07:18 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Mike Porter Message-ID: <20030609070718.GA94542@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Mike Porter , darren , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20030608012118.M496@quantumtheorem.com> <20030609021420.M59766@quantumtheorem.com> <200306082154.41860.mupi@mknet.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200306082154.41860.mupi@mknet.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.5 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.55 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: darren Subject: Re: nvidia/4.8-stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 07:08:48 -0000 --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 09:54:33PM -0600, Mike Porter wrote: > On Sunday 08 June 2003 08:20 pm, darren wrote: > > No, the nvidia driver claims it works on 4.7 and up, and then later say= s it > > doesn't work on 4.8. Someone was really lazy with the documentation and > > didn't bother proof reading it. I already had it installed and had it > > crash my computer when I upgraded to 4.8, and yet in ports it still bui= lds, > > even though I crash from it. > > > > -Darren >=20 > I guess YMMV, then, because it works fine for me, and I have 4.8. Like I= =20 > said, I did have to jump through a few hoops, but once jumped, it has bee= n=20 > working (I almost said flawlessly, but it doesn't appear to do OpenGL=20 > correctly; everything else in my setup works). It may be something with = the=20 > particular card, although supposedly nvidia has a common driver interface= =20 > that means that all of their cards, from TNT to Titanium, should work. When I first installed the nvidia drivers, everything was peachy. However a few XFree86 updates[*] later, and X started to get a little flakey on startup -- usually the xdm login screen wouldn't render correctly. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace would restore things to normal. Then came an X update too far, and X would crash on boot leaving the console completely unresponsive. The cure was to throw away my old XF86Config and start again from scratch. Seems that either re-ordering the FontPath elements or modifying the Module Load stuff by dropping 'bitmap' and adding 'xtrap' has made all the difference. Now everything is peachy once again. Cheers, Matthew [*] Since the x11/nvidia-driver port fights with the x11/XFree86-4-libraries port over the ownership of /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1, reinstalling x11/nvidia-driver after every update to the X11 libraries would seem to be a good idea. --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+5DImdtESqEQa7a0RAhu6AKCOSTr3f6jY1PF1EVXM4nW19eUQ7wCfVirm bw3VulRI7F3AVBldn3dQzjs= =eUj4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs--