Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 10:06:46 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@linux.gr> Subject: Re: Using nvidia-driver with 6-x/CURRENT Message-ID: <200505091006.48132.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20050508235140.GA15530@gothmog.gr> References: <200505081828.08055.david.freebsd@verizon.net> <20050508235140.GA15530@gothmog.gr>
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--nextPart29358887.4qXVQ3dqGY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, 9 May 2005 09:21, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2005-05-08 18:28, David Gurvich <david.freebsd@verizon.net> wrote: > > I was able to install v.7174 from the port after modifying nv-freebsd.h. > > This consisted of commenting out the portion where an error is given if > > the freebsd version is greater than 6. > > Leonidas (whom I have Cc:'ed) mentioned something similar. Works fine here too (Fx5200 Go) > > At present the driver seems to be working fine. I have noticed no > > difference in operation from 5.3-RELEASE. > > If this is true, then the maintainer of the port can update it I guess. > It may take some care and testing to see that things don't break for > releases other than 4.X though, since the port has to support 4.9 or > later too ;-) The 7174 driver only supports 5.3 onwards. I presume nVidia made it so it will bail on -current so they don't have to= =20 support it as much (<dry laugh>) Also, if we're talking about the port can it modify the makefile so the KLD= =20 installs into /boot/kernel? Going into /boot/modules is a recipe for user=20 frustration :( =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart29358887.4qXVQ3dqGY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCfrCg5ZPcIHs/zowRAsMuAKCJWOO5iiaeoNHG9esIFo5vdOVbnwCfeLAY h98B7UvBF1T3eUeIEWAAKmM= =aje2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart29358887.4qXVQ3dqGY--
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