Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 13:38:35 +0000 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 60 question. Message-ID: <200512011338.41895.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <200511291253.03997.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> References: <200511281206.57300.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> <200511292002.09257.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> <200511291253.03997.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>
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On Tuesday 29 November 2005 20:52, Vizion wrote: > On Tuesday 29 November 2005 12:02, the author RW contributed to the > dialogue on- > > Re: Upgrading to 60 question.: > >On Tuesday 29 November 2005 18:53, Vizion wrote: > >> On Tuesday 29 November 2005 07:16, the author RW contributed to the > >> dialogue on- > >> > >> Re: Upgrading to 60 question.: > >> >On Tuesday 29 November 2005 14:01, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > >> >> The ports will continue to work, but you should update them when you > >> >> get a chance so that they link against the 6.0 libraries instead of > >> >> the old ones. > >> > > >> >One exception is nvidia-driver, you must remove the driver from > >> > loader.conf and rebuild against 6.0 before re-enabling it. > >> > >> Umph > >> > >> just checked loader.conf and the file is blank > >> > >> Man nv(4) refers to the nvidia driver - I am not certain where/how the > >> driver is being loaded -- X must be using it! > >> any ideas? > > > >nv is the open-source driver. It's nvidia's own driver (in the > >x11/nvidia-driver port) that's causes a problem. > >_______________________________________________ > > nvidia-driver and nvidia-setting are in /dev but I do not know where they > are loaded from! Don't worry unless you have the x11/nvidia-driver installed and nvidia_load=YES in loader.conf.
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