Re: Using nvidia-driver with 6-x/CURRENT

On 2005-05-08 18:28, David Gurvich <david.freebsd_at_verizon.net> wrote:
> I was able to install v.7174 from the port after modifying nv-freebsd.h.
> This consisted of commenting out the portion where an error is given if the
> freebsd version is greater than 6.

Leonidas (whom I have Cc:'ed) mentioned something similar.

> At present the driver seems to be working fine.  I have noticed no
> difference in operation from 5.3-RELEASE.

If this is true, then the maintainer of the port can update it I guess.
It may take some care and testing to see that things don't break for
releases other than 4.X though, since the port has to support 4.9 or
later too ;-)

- Giorgos