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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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