Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:05:17 +0200 From: Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez <jlalarcon@nerdshack.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade xorg 7.2 breaks legacy nvidia 1.0-9631 driver ... Message-ID: <20070616130517.53648ff4.jlalarcon@nerdshack.com> In-Reply-To: <000201c7aff0$fdcc6070$6601a8c0@KGISH> References: <000201c7aff0$fdcc6070$6601a8c0@KGISH>
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On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 10:33:16 +0200 "Kiffin Gish" <kiffin.gish@planet.nl> wrote: > After I upgraded to xorg 7.2, I cannot get things to work anymore with my > legacy nvidia 1.0-9631 driver (I have a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop). > > Originally, I downloaded the FreeBSD legacy driver from the official nvidia > website and installed it under the then current X11BASE=/usr/X11R6. > Everything worked just fine. > > Until the upgrade to xorg 7.2, that is. > > As instructed in the upgrade instructions, I changed ModulePath to > "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules" in xorg.conf, which I suspect is the root of > my problems, since the original working driver has remained installed in the > old X11BASE. > Hello again, Kiffin. Try to add this line to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf: ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" I want to say, mantain the module path "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules", but add too "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules". It's the way where Nvidia legacy driver 1.0-96xx still put the module when building. Maybe this guys adapt the driver to the new FreeBSD Xorg structure soon. Hope this help. Regards. Jose. > I've tried to install the driver from the nvidia-driver-9631 ports > directory, but after struggling forever with all kinds of errors, I gave up > and figured the best approach would be to somehow use my current setup, > possibly copying and or linking to the right place. > > Should I just reinstall the driver, but which X11BASE? How to remove the > original files without messing up my system even more? > > But I am not sure where to begin. Are there any kind folks out there who can > give me a hand? > > Thanks alot in advance. > > -- > Kiffin Rex Gish > Gouda, The Netherlands > -- http://www.lordofunix.org/ Not Registered GNU/Hurd User. Registered BSD User 51101. Registered Linux User #213309. Memories..... You are talking about memories. Rick Deckard. Blade Runner.
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