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Date:      Sat, 17 Jan 2015 17:10:04 -0800
From:      Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
To:        Andreas Tobler <andreast-list@fgznet.ch>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: CURRENT breaks loading of nvidia.so
Message-ID:  <CAN6yY1sU1xu3NQU=933m73Y4qLW%2BkvczeHfgp9rEmaq05dtR%2Bw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <54BA8336.4090807@fgznet.ch>
References:  <20150117151806.GE91189@rancor.immure.com> <54BA8336.4090807@fgznet.ch>

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On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Andreas Tobler <andreast-list@fgznet.ch>
wrote:

> On 17.01.15 16:18, Bob Willcox wrote:
>
>> Yesterday when I upgraded my current box I encountered this failure when
>> attempting to load the nvidia-driver (nvidia.so):
>>
>> link_elf_obj: symbol _callout_stop_safe undefined
>> linker_load_file: Unsupported file type
>>
>> So, today I updtated my system again today hoping it might be fixed but
>> the
>> problem persists.
>>
>> System info:
>>
>> FreeBSD han.immure.com 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #4 r277299: Sat
>> Jan 17 08:52:41 CST 2015     bob@han.immure.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HAN
>> amd64
>>
>
> I think you have to rebuild the nvidia-driver against your fresh built
> system. At least I had and my T510 s working again with the nvidia.ko.
>
>
David W. really has it right. If you rebuild the kernel, any port
installing a kernel module needs to be rebuilt, as well. The use of
PORT_MODULES in /etc/src.conf is the best way to make sure it happens.
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com



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