Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 09:43:45 +0200 From: Jona Joachim <jona.joachim@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weirdness with Xorg, x11/nvidia-driver and GLX Message-ID: <445B0231.9040300@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060504200843.246b372f@phobos.mars.bsd> References: <445A66EE.8010808@web.de> <20060504200843.246b372f@phobos.mars.bsd>
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Alejandro Pulver wrote: > On Thu, 04 May 2006 22:41:18 +0200 > Jona Joachim <jaj13@web.de> wrote: > >> Hi! >> I don't know if the following behavior is normal or not. >> The second but last time the xorg-server port was updated and I >> installed the new version it crashed every time I wanted to use an >> OpenGL application. The first time I noticed this was when I wanted to >> play games/linux-enemyterritory but later on I saw that it happened >> with any OpenGL application, even a simple call to glxinfo had the >> same effect. The result was always the same: the screen switched to >> ttyv0 without killing Xorg and it freezed like that. The only thing >> to which it reacted were ACPI calls (i.e. it shutted down properly >> when I hit the power button). >> I rebuilt the nvidia-driver just to see if it changes something or if >> I see something strange things during the compilation. I was >> astonished to see that after having done this everything worked fine >> again just like before. I thought that this was something that >> happened once due to mysterious circumstances and would never happen >> again so I forgot about it. However when the Xorg port was updated >> once again yesterday I saw that exactly the same problem happened >> again. This time it was also solved by rebuilding nvidia-driver. >> >> My graphics card is an NVidia GeForce 5200 FX >> Version of nvidia-driver: 1.0.8178_1 >> Version of xorg-server: 6.9.0_3 >> >> uname -a >> FreeBSD 10.0.0.11 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #0: Mon Mar 27 >> 17:05:15 CEST 2006 >> root@10.0.0.11:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HYPOCENTER i386 > > Hello. > > This happens because the port x11/nvidia-driver renames the OpenGL > library and X11 module installed by Xorg and installs the NVidia ones. > When it's deinstalled, it removes the files and renames back the Xorg > files. > > The problem is that when you update the Xorg port (x11/xorg-libraries) > you force its deinstallation, so it removes the NVidia OpenGL libraries > and X11 module (without removing NVidia drivers first) and replaces it > with the Xorg one (without installing NVidia drivers after). Hi! Thanks for your explanation. Don't you think it would be good if the x11/xorg-libraries port checks whether x11/nvidia-driver is installed and updates it in the post-install target? Is there a feature in the ports system that handles these issues? Otherwise one could perhaps mention this in pkg-message or in UPDATING? It's not really intuitive
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