Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:31:11 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Difficulties getting nvidia-driver to work with latest x.org ports Message-ID: <20090203203111.679FB1CC0B@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:08:44 GMT." <1233684524.43076.14.camel@strangepork.mintel.co.uk>
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> From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> > Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:08:44 +0000 > Sender: owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org > > Hi all > > This weekend, I installed 7.1-RELEASE on my home PC (base only). I then > updated to RELENG_7, updated the ports tree to the latest, and went > about installing the latest x.org ports. > > First off, the new xorg seems to have a bad bad regression - Xorg > -configure is now largely useless, it generated a config with just > ridiculous config. I'm still at work, but I'll post it when I get home, > just crazy. It's still pretty simple to write from scratch though, so > not too disastrous. > > Secondly, and much worse, it seems the nvidia-driver is built against an > older ABI incompatible version of xorg-server. It installs a > library /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so which has a missing symbol > "miZeroLineScreenIndex". I found this recent article[1] which seems to > suggest replacing the nvidia installed version with the xorg version, > which sounds dubious imho (I dont speak/read/understand Japanese at all, > that may not be at all what it is saying!) > I tried updating from the latest version in ports (177.80) to the latest > on nvidias website (180.22), but they both still referred to > miZeroLineScreenIndex. > > I'll post full details of installed packages etc when I get home. > Thankfully, the nv driver seems to work reasonabley well now in 2D! > > If I was going to roll back xserver, what else would I need to roll > back? Presumabley all drivers? libX11? My ports is a locally slaved CVS > checkout as described in development(7), so this should be reasonabley > straight forward... I have been holding off on the new xorg until some of the dust settles, but I suggest that you re-install nvidia-driver. This has fixed the problem in the past. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
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