Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:15:49 -0700 (PDT) From: sarek <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating X.org FreeBSD ports to 7.3 Message-ID: <12588564.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <e890cae60709100020j39e60a69r18412676d580f655@mail.gmail.com> References: <46E1E44B.6010500@xbsd.org> <12585273.post@talk.nabble.com> <12587577.post@talk.nabble.com> <e890cae60709100020j39e60a69r18412676d580f655@mail.gmail.com>
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Rene Ladan-3 wrote: > > 2007/9/10, sarek <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>: >> >> Thanks for the help... >> >> The build went without a hitch (no previous version of X installed). >> >> It still doesn't like my card but I guess I will have to wait for Nvidia >> to >> release the new driver in the next few days... the nv driver doesn't >> reconize the card and the prioritory one has a ABI mismatch that >> -ignoreABI >> doesn't resolve >> > Yes, this sounds like Nvidia needs to recompile their driver under > Xserver 1.4 which ships with X.org 7.3 > The need to do a little more then that since I looked through the sources and saw plenty of places it assumes pre-7.3 stuff >> I am stuck with vesa I guess, but I will say the vesa driver on 7.3 is a >> better then the one on 7.2 but it still blanks the screen under heavy I/O >> (disk) > If you look at X.org gitweb, you can see that the vesa driver hasn't > changed. I'm also stuck with the vesa driver, but I've never seen > screen blankings. > I have had a few other odd ball things (like fetch hangs on certain http://.... url's in the ports tree) so I am upgrading to 7.0-CURRENT from 6.2-RELEASE-p7. This is &*^&*&* madding because my old machine had the bad idea to die right as I built (literally 5 mins before) this new one (one reason for buying it was I knew the old machine was on the way out) and the semester starts tomorrow and a CS student (and a ISV owner) with no developement platform is a *BAD THING* (exspecially when I owe one from last semester ;-) which I need open office for). Well enough ranting I like the new machine: E6850 3.0 GHz P35 chipset (MSI Neon-F MB) 4 GB ram 500 GB SATA drive Nvidia 8400 GS PCI-E (yes one of the low end components) Some nice accessaries like my first non-lowest cost case/power supply Price was right $950 (including tax and service plans on MB and CPU) --Aryeh -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Updating-X.org-FreeBSD-ports-to-7.3-tf4404387.html#a12588564 Sent from the freebsd-x11 mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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