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Date:      Sat, 1 Mar 2008 01:14:12 +0300 (MSK)
From:      Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        danfe@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   ports/121239: [PATCH] x11/nvidia-driver: add note for 7.x users
Message-ID:  <200802292214.m1TMEC6S011099@mail.irbisnet.ru>
Resent-Message-ID: <200802292220.m1TMK0xE093101@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         121239
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       [PATCH] x11/nvidia-driver: add note for 7.x users
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Feb 29 22:20:00 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Yuri Pankov
>Release:        FreeBSD
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
Add note for 7.x users.

Port maintainer (danfe@FreeBSD.org) is cc'd.

Generated with FreeBSD Port Tools 0.77
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:

--- nvidia-driver-169.07.patch begins here ---
Index: files/pkg-message.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/files/pkg-message.in,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 pkg-message.in
--- files/pkg-message.in	19 Feb 2008 14:32:04 -0000	1.6
+++ files/pkg-message.in	29 Feb 2008 22:13:39 -0000
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
 
 to your /boot/loader.conf.
 
+Note for 7.x users: you MUST edit /boot/loader.conf and reboot,
+kldload'ing nvidia module will NOT work.
+
 If you build this port with WITH_FREEBSD_AGP=yes, make sure you have
 agp.ko kernel module compiled and installed, since nvidia.ko will
 depend on it, or have your kernel compiled with "device agp".  Other-
--- nvidia-driver-169.07.patch ends here ---

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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