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

From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe_at_FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 01:56:14 +0000 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:40:08 UTC

On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 11:32:00PM +0000, Alexander Best wrote:
> 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.

Or install from ports, which also patch the driver to support -CURRENT.

./danfe