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Date:      Thu, 05 Jun 2003 07:01:14 -0600
From:      Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>
To:        jimd@siu.edu
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvsup 06/05/2003 breaks nvidia driver
Message-ID:  <3EDF3F1A.70403@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200306051022.h55AMQTT000346@freebsd2.localnet10>
References:  <200306051022.h55AMQTT000346@freebsd2.localnet10>

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jimd_NOSPAM@siu.edu wrote:
> I am not on my 5.1-BETA2 system right now, so I don't have any useful
> details, but after CVSuping /usr/src early 05/06/2003 (after midnight), then
> build world and recompiling and installing "my" kernel, the nvidia driver
> "checks out" when X is loaded with a failure to initialize the driver.
> 
> The system in question has run 5.1-BETA1 and earlier 5.1-BETA2 code before
> without any nvidia driver problem.
> 
> In the meantime, any suggestions on how to provide useful information, other
> than just the XFree86.0.log file, would be helpful. I have used both of the
> "native" nvidia driver and the ports-linux version (once), but tend to stay
> with the "native" version (1.0-3203).

There was yet another ABI change recently that affected the nvidia
driver.  The only thing to do is just recompile that driver.

Scott




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