Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 14:33:47 +0100 From: Juan Francisco Rodriguez Hervella <jrh@it.uc3m.es> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Will official-NVIDIA-driver for 4.7 work with -CURRENT ? Message-ID: <3DCBBD3B.F5F1861@it.uc3m.es> References: <3DCBB7EC.13E6DD09@it.uc3m.es> <20021108132233.GD19789@student.uu.se>
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Erik Trulsson wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 02:11:08PM +0100, Juan Francisco Rodriguez Hervella wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've just seen the release of FreeBSD-NVIDIA driver for > > FreeBSD-4.7 > > > > Will this driver work with -CURRENT ?¿ > > > > PS: http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=freebsd_1.0-3203 > > The README file found at the above URL claims that: > > <quote> > FreeBSD -STABLE versions older than 4.7 and FreeBSD -CURRENT are > not supported. > <end quote> > > So I guess the answer is no. > It is of course possible that it might work anyway even if NVIDIA don't > support it but since a kernel module is involved and those are generally > not portable between major releases it is not very likely it will work. > I've seen that... so, the only possibility we've got is to cry loudly at NVIDIA people and ask them to make a driver for -CURRENT.... (I shouldn't install -CURRENT on my home computer :( -- JFRH. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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