On Mon, 9 May 2005 09:21, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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. Works fine here too (Fx5200 Go) > > 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 ;-) The 7174 driver only supports 5.3 onwards. I presume nVidia made it so it will bail on -current so they don't have to support it as much (<dry laugh>) Also, if we're talking about the port can it modify the makefile so the KLD installs into /boot/kernel? Going into /boot/modules is a recipe for user frustration :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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