From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 3 07:47:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39BFB16A4CE for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 07:47:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from itchy.rabson.org (mailgate.nlsystems.com [80.177.232.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18F0F43D60 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 07:47:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from ns0.nlsystems.com (ns0.nlsystems.com [80.177.232.243]) by itchy.rabson.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i737lBwB004381; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 08:47:11 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) From: Doug Rabson To: Mayo Jordanov Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 08:47:07 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <1091385943.873.4.camel@taxman> <200408020938.02238.dfr@nlsystems.com> <1091513552.4226.4.camel@einstein.local.nfy> In-Reply-To: <1091513552.4226.4.camel@einstein.local.nfy> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408030847.07803.dfr@nlsystems.com> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on itchy.rabson.org X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.71, clamav-milter version 0.71 X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nvidia binary drivers no longer work X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 07:47:17 -0000 On Tuesday 03 August 2004 07:12, Mayo Jordanov wrote: > On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 01:38, Doug Rabson wrote: > > On Sunday 01 August 2004 19:45, Stefan Ehmann wrote: > > > After today's cvsup the system freezes when I try to start X > > > using the nvidia binary driver. The nv driver still works. > > > > > > ~1 week old kernel doesn't have this problem. > > > > If you can be patient, there will be a new release of the nvidia > > binary driver fairly soon (which also supports libpthread and > > libthr). > > Do you have any idea if it has/will have support for the 5700 > chipset? I have no reason to think otherwise. It should support all the chipsets that the linux driver supports (since its the same code). > > Thanks for the great work, Most of the thanks should go to the guys at NVidia - I'm just helping out with the threading magic.