From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 31 15:20:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 999B816A4CE for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:20:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.broadpark.no (mail.broadpark.no [217.13.4.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5784C43D58 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:20:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no) Received: from [10.0.0.3] (52.80-202-129.nextgentel.com [80.202.129.52]) by mail.broadpark.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72F8B3C36; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:21:03 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <41351561.90706@broadpark.no> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:18:41 -0700 From: Henrik W Lund User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: nb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: netchaos@terra.com.br References: <200408310407.55521.netchaos@terra.com.br> In-Reply-To: <200408310407.55521.netchaos@terra.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nvidia drivers and mem.ko module X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:20:26 -0000 Ricardo Britto wrote: >Hi, > >I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 #3 on my machine and I'm having problems >on installing nvidia-driver from ports. >I get the following error: ERROR: Failed to load the NVIDIA module! >KLD nvidia.ko: depends on mem - not available. > >That's saying about mem.ko module. Well, I cvsuped my tree - 'cause mem.ko >doesn't exit on my /boot/kernel directory - and it's not available for my >tag=RELENG_5_2. I tried to update my tree with the tag=. and it downloads mem >source, but it's incompatible to my freebsd version (when I try to build and >install my kernel I get errors about options that aren't available for that >version of kernel). > >I searched google about more info and all I could get was a discussion between >commiters about cvsup war/bug fix. >In the end: I can't install nvidia-driver because it needs mem.ko module and I >can't install mem.ko module because it isn't cvsuped to my tree (or because >I'm too dummy :( ). > >Could anyone help? > >I appreciate in advance, > >Ricardo Britto > Greetings! . is the -CURRENT branch tag, and the config file for the kernel may have changed since the creation of RELENG_5_2. You should use the GENERIC config file and modify it instead of using your old one. -Henrik