Re: Is nvidia-driver 256.53 expected to work on -current?

On Sun Oct 17 10, Ralph Ellis wrote:
> Doug Barton wrote:
> >Y'all will probably recall that I had a lot of problems with the 
> >nvidia-driver, and video generally (esp. flash) on i386 -current. Well 
> >I haven't had any problems recently because I haven't been using 
> >FreeBSD. :)  But I have things I need to catch up on, so here's what I 
> >did:
> >
> >1. Bought a new hard drive, and installed a snapshot of amd64 -current 
> >(this was actually done a while ago).
> >2. Yesterday I started configuring stuff, updated my source and ports 
> >trees, rebuilt the world, customized the kernel, etc.
> >3. With a newly up to date system I built the latest version of the 
> >nvidia-driver port, and started using it.
> >
> >My experience with it has been exactly the same as older versions of 
> >the port on previous versions of i386 -current. Sometimes it runs fine 
> >for a while, but whe n I exit the window manager (openbox) the system 
> >hangs and I never get back to the command prompt. (I'm using startx to 
> >try and minimize the number of variables.) Sometimes it will work fine 
> >for an hour, maybe two, then the whole thing just hangs. All the stuff 
> >is displayed on the screen, but the mouse won't move, I can't zap X, 
> >or even switch to the console. I have to power off. This is 
> >particularly frustrating because I haven't even loaded flash (or for 
> >that matter firefox) yet.
> >
> >Windows and linux (ubuntu, with the nvidia driver) work great on this 
> >same hardware, so I'm pretty thoroughly convinced that the problem is 
> >with freebsd/current somewhere. In addition to the -current partition 
> >I also installed amd64 8.1-RELEASE so I'll give that a go next, but I 
> >wanted to ask here first if anyone else was having problems on -current.
> >
> >
> >Doug
> >
> I am currently running the Nvidia  195 driver on amd64 9 - current from 
> the ports tree. It works without problems.
> When I tried to compile the 256 driver, it would not compile and said 
> that it was not meant to work with 9 - current.

i'm running 256.52 on HEAD (amd64) without any issues. the 260.X drivers all
freze my computer when i exit X.

it's quite easy to work around the isse that the nvidia drivers fail to compile
on HEAD. simply change the line #if __FreeBSD_version >= 900000 in
src/nv-freebsd.h to #if __FreeBSD_version >= 1000000.

cheers.
alex

> Hope this helps.
> Ralph Ellis
> ralphellis1_at_netscape.ca
> 
> 

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