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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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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
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