Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:04:27 -0500 (EST) From: John Nielsen <john@jnielsen.net> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: john@jnielsen.net Subject: ports/107811: Need UPDATING notice that x11/nvidia-driver no longer supports certain chipsets Message-ID: <200701110304.l0B34RYb027388@stealth.jnielsen.net> Resent-Message-ID: <200701110340.l0B3eDx3039503@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 107811 >Category: ports >Synopsis: Need UPDATING notice that x11/nvidia-driver no longer supports certain chipsets >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Jan 11 03:40:13 GMT 2007 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: John Nielsen >Release: FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE i386 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD stealth.jnielsen.net 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Wed Jan 3 18:38:40 EST 2007 john@stealth.jnielsen.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/STEALTH i386 >Description: My card and several others that were supported by the 9631 driver are no longer supported by the 9746 driver. From Xorg.log: (WW) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 SD GPU installed in this system is (WW) NVIDIA(0): supported through the NVIDIA 1.0-96xx Legacy drivers. (WW) NVIDIA(0): Please visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for (WW) NVIDIA(0): more information. The 1.0-9746 NVIDIA driver will ignore (WW) NVIDIA(0): this GPU. Continuing probe... I was unable to find a list of all the cards dropped from this version of the driver. A forum post reported losing support for this card as well: (WW) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X GPU installed ... >How-To-Repeat: Update to latest nvidia-driver port while using a no-longer-supported card. Reboot. Fail to see X come up. >Fix: There should be an entry in ports/UPDATING alerting users that the 9746 driver does not support all the cards that the 9631 driver does. A pointer to a list of dropped cards (if you can find one) would be ideal. Instructions on using portdowngrade and HOLD_PKGS could also be appropriate. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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