Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:45:48 +0200 From: Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with nvidia-driver and "X" after upgrade Message-ID: <1314402348.13483.6.camel@xenon> In-Reply-To: <BLU0-SMTP272523F17C12EEF65F60A1693130@phx.gbl> References: <BLU0-SMTP4202D6EAD2AD6157E83689D93130@phx.gbl> <20110826172328.67f707d7@cox.net> <BLU0-SMTP272523F17C12EEF65F60A1693130@phx.gbl>
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On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 18:51 -0400, Carmel wrote: > I found the problem. I had downloaded the source files for BSD a few > days ago; however, I never rebuild the kernel or world. When the nvidia > driver got rebuild it was evidently using those new files. I got the > answer while Googling. When trying to manually load the driver, I > received this error message: > > kldload: can't load nvidia: Exec format error > > Evidently, this is a known phenomena with the nvidia-driver. This is a known phenomena with everything when having your OS sources and your live OS out of sync. > So, after rebuild World/Kernel and installing same and then rebuilding > the nvidia-driver, all is well again. > > Now, in my not so humble opinion, there should be some sort of warning > in the driver dialog, or at least in the port description that warns of > this behavior. It could have save3d me several hours of needless > searching. Hours that I will never get back. :) > Nvdia-driver is a driver, a kernel module so to say. You built the driver against kernel sources that are different from your live kernel. You got a driver that will work with kernel corresponding to those sources. What kind of "warning" would you be expecting there and what purpose would it serve? m. -- Michal Varga, Stonehenge (Gmail account)
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