Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:07:07 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan@gmail.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Emanuel Haupt <ehaupt@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: nvidia-driver 256.35 released Message-ID: <20100623010707.GA10117@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4C2117DB.1010000@gmail.com> References: <20100622213511.ff59dcf5.ehaupt@FreeBSD.org> <4C2117DB.1010000@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:06:51PM +0200, Rene Ladan wrote: > On 22-06-2010 21:35, Emanuel Haupt wrote: > > Nvidia released version 256.35 of their FreeBSD driver today: > > > > http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd-x86-256.35-driver.html > > http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd-x64-256.35-driver.html > > > > I just compiled the the 64bit version on 8.1-RC1 and watched a few > > youtube videos, ran glxgears and played games/nexuiz for a few minutes > > w/o any issues. > > > > If you want to test the new driver, just bump PORTVERSION of > > x11/nvidia-driver to 256.35 and run "make makesum". > > > Doesn't this imply repocopy'ing the current port to > x11/nvidia-driver-195 and _then_ updating this port to 256.35 ? At this point there are no plans to repocopy for a yet another version of nvidia driver other than three legacy versions we already have. Master port will be updated to the latest stable version once people who had original problems with anything >195.22 (dougb@ et al) would test any latest version nVidia has for us and confirm their stability issues are indeed gone. ./danfe
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