Re: cvsup 06/05/2003 breaks nvidia driver

After having installed 5.1-RC1, the nvidia driver, and named, are
back in full operation. Yeah!



On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 jimd_NOSPAM_at_siu.edu wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion about recompiling the nvidia driver, but I do after
> each kernel compile and install, so that isn't the answer, though not a bad
> idea. Recompiles of both the Linux-nvidia-port and the standalone-nvidia
> driver failed, so I am in the process, now, of backing out of everything that
> was updated.
>
> Are there any suggestions for better diagnosing of the problem?
>
>
> On  5 Jun, Scott Long wrote:
> > jimd_NOSPAM_at_siu.edu wrote:
> >> I am not on my 5.1-BETA2 system right now, so I don't have any useful
> >> details, but after CVSuping /usr/src early 05/06/2003 (after midnight), then
> >> build world and recompiling and installing "my" kernel, the nvidia driver
> >> "checks out" when X is loaded with a failure to initialize the driver.
> >>
> >> The system in question has run 5.1-BETA1 and earlier 5.1-BETA2 code before
> >> without any nvidia driver problem.
> >>
> >> In the meantime, any suggestions on how to provide useful information, other
> >> than just the XFree86.0.log file, would be helpful. I have used both of the
> >> "native" nvidia driver and the ports-linux version (once), but tend to stay
> >> with the "native" version (1.0-3203).
> >
> > There was yet another ABI change recently that affected the nvidia
> > driver.  The only thing to do is just recompile that driver.
> >
> > Scott
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