Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:18:41 -0700 From: Henrik W Lund <henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no> To: netchaos@terra.com.br Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nvidia drivers and mem.ko module Message-ID: <41351561.90706@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <200408310407.55521.netchaos@terra.com.br> References: <200408310407.55521.netchaos@terra.com.br>
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Ricardo Britto wrote: >Hi, > >I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 #3 on my machine and I'm having problems >on installing nvidia-driver from ports. >I get the following error: ERROR: Failed to load the NVIDIA module! >KLD nvidia.ko: depends on mem - not available. > >That's saying about mem.ko module. Well, I cvsuped my tree - 'cause mem.ko >doesn't exit on my /boot/kernel directory - and it's not available for my >tag=RELENG_5_2. I tried to update my tree with the tag=. and it downloads mem >source, but it's incompatible to my freebsd version (when I try to build and >install my kernel I get errors about options that aren't available for that >version of kernel). > >I searched google about more info and all I could get was a discussion between >commiters about cvsup war/bug fix. >In the end: I can't install nvidia-driver because it needs mem.ko module and I >can't install mem.ko module because it isn't cvsuped to my tree (or because >I'm too dummy :( ). > >Could anyone help? > >I appreciate in advance, > >Ricardo Britto > Greetings! . is the -CURRENT branch tag, and the config file for the kernel may have changed since the creation of RELENG_5_2. You should use the GENERIC config file and modify it instead of using your old one. -Henrik
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