Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2013 10:55:18 -0700 From: Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, wblock@wonkity.com Cc: mexas@bristol.ac.uk, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: which X driver for NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M? Message-ID: <510EA486.7000908@dreamchaser.org> In-Reply-To: <20130203180215.3aca2c57.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <201302031033.r13AX0Dx088925@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <510E880D.7090203@dreamchaser.org> <510E926F.7060201@dreamchaser.org> <20130203180215.3aca2c57.freebsd@edvax.de>
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>>> The nvidia legacy driver page does not list that card, so it may be >>> supported with the current x11/nvidia-driver port >>> http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html >>> >>> I have a GT-610 and it is also not listed. >>> I am in the process of upgrading to 9.1 as well, >>> but am fighting a bad SSD and have to reconfigure. >> >> The most recent nvidia port I can find is >> NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-304.64.tar.gz >> It builds fine, but on installing it craps out with the following message: >> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers No such file or directory ... >> On 9.0, where I am using the 304.60 version, X11R6 is a pointer to /usr/local. > > That's the default for some time now. Even FreeBSD v8 already > has that symlink, maybe it has already been part of v7 (not sure). > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10 2011-08-21 22:32:05 /usr/X11R6@ -> /usr/local > >> But my install of 9.1 has an actual /usr/X11R6, and that means things are >> scattered all over, some in /usr/local/lib/xorg and some in /usr/X11R6. > > Where did you get the real X11R6/ directory entry from? Is this > some legacy of "continuous updating" the system beginning at a > version that actually had X11R6/ as a directory? That's what I'd like to know :-) I suspect it is from building the nvidia driver, as those Makefiles use X11BASE= /usr/X11R6 >> This may be a glitch on my end; not sure yet. > > I think it is. The port expects something that actually is in > /usr/local, which would have been the same as in /usr/X11R6, > but in your case, it's not. > >> I had to restart my ports >> build because I screwed up and didn't do a fetch before building x11/xorg, >> and that may have created some bad directories. > > In worst case, maybe you can remove your ports and recreate the > reqired directory structures using the mtree templates > BSD.local.dist (and maybe BSD.x11.dist or BSD.x11-4.dist), > or maybe the xorg port will install the symlink automatically? > If you're not sure, create the symlink yourself and continue > as if nothing had happened. :-) I think manually creating the symlink and rebuilding x and the nvidia port may be what I'll try next. >> Can anyone verify if /usr/X11R6 under 9.1 is supposed to be a symlink to >> /usr/local? > > I stronly assume it is (no v9 OS at hand to check). On 02/03/13 10:42, Warren Block wrote: > Yes, or rather, there is no /usr/X11R6 at all, on either of the two 9-stable systems I checked. Hmmm, there is on my 9.0 with an nvidia driver installed. Are you running an nvidia driver? If not, that would hint that the X11R6 dir/link is a result of the nvidia driver install process
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