Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:19:31 -0400 From: Michael Powell <nightrecon@verizon.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg and nvidia-driver-173 ABI Message-ID: <grkli9$9gc$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <20090408184603.0a3540ed@gumby.homeunix.com>
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RW wrote: > I picked-up the most recent xorg update a couple of days ago, and > since then X has been failing to start with the binary nvidia driver, > and is leaving the following in Xorg.0.log: > > (EE) NVIDIA(0): This video driver ABI is not supported. > (EE) NVIDIA(0): Use the -ignoreABI option to override this check. > > -ignoreABI doesn't help. > > I presume that nvidia will eventually fix this for the current driver, > but I'm using the legacy driver port x11/nvidia-driver-173. Is there any > prospect of the nvidia driver working again on my hardware? > > If the answer is no, would the nv driver benefit from a switch from > i386 to amd64. > Have you rebuilt the nvidia-port after the xorg update? You might just need to do the make, make deinstall, make reinstall dance for the version you're using. This will rebuild the kernel module to match the new xorg. -Mike
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