Re: nVidia driver works on -current?

On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:20:31 -0500, alan bryan <alanbryan1234_at_yahoo.com>  
wrote:

> Can anyone tell me if the nVidia display driver
> (ports/x11/nvidia-driver) works on current?  The

Yes, it works fine as long if you use my patch. Without patch, it will not  
build with newer -CURRENT because -CURRENT no longer has bus_memio.h.

http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/diff/nvidia-driver.diff

Cheers,
Mezz

> nVidia README says it's not "supported" but I'm
> wondering if it still works.  Since 5.x and 6.x are
> fairly close I'm thinking it might still work and
> wondering if anyone has it working - if so I'll try it
> out myself.
>
> Thanks,
> Alan
>
> (Here's the relevant part of the README)
> __________________________________________________________________________
>
> (sec-01) SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
> __________________________________________________________________________
>
> The offical minimum software requirements for the
> NVIDIA FreeBSD Driver
> Set are:
>
>  - FreeBSD 5-STABLE (FreeBSD 5.3 or later)
>
>    Please review sec-05: CHOOSING THE AGP GART DRIVER
> for AGP related
>    information.
>
>  - kernel source tree in /usr/src/sys (package 'ssys'
> installed)
>
>  - Xorg 6.7.0 or XFree86 4.2 and greater
>
>
> FreeBSD -STABLE versions older than FreeBSD 5.3 and
> FreeBSD 6.x -CURRENT
> development snapshots are not supported.


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