Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 21:22:06 -0800 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> Cc: FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: CURRENT breaks loading of nvidia.so Message-ID: <CAN6yY1uqTcphgsw6a8hv_S7oY2rMhi0NY9tGZKzqVqR9E9Ge=Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20150118043426.GF91189@rancor.immure.com> References: <20150117151806.GE91189@rancor.immure.com> <54BA8380.4060108@selasky.org> <20150117154837.GL1151@albert.catwhisker.org> <20150118043426.GF91189@rancor.immure.com>
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On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 07:48:37AM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 04:45:04PM +0100, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > The nvidia-driver package needs to be recompiled with the latest > > > FreeBSD-current sources, because of changes in the callout subsystem. > > > > > > If this is not possible, we can temporarily add the > "_callout_stop_safe" > > > symbol to the kernel for some transition time. > > > ... > > > > While I'm running i386 (vs. amd64), I have not encountered the cited > > issue. > > > > Given the above, I suspect that the fact that I have the line: > > > > PORTS_MODULES=x11/nvidia-driver > > > > > > in /etc/src.conf has a fair amount of (positive) influence on that. > > > > (I track stable/10 & head -- on different slices -- daily on my laptop.) > > > > Peace, > > david > > Thanks ALL! Adding the PORTS_MODULES=x11/nvidia-driver line to my > /etc/src.conf > file and rebuilding the kernel fixed it! > > Learn something new every day! :) > Can anyone tell me where PORTS_MODULES is documented? I don't find it in the Handbook. It's not in src.conf(5). I've known of it since Doug B. (I thing) wrote it. This is a very beneficial tool. It really needs to be well documented. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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