Re: CURRENT breaks loading of nvidia.so

From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 21:22:06 -0800
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Bob Willcox <bob_at_immure.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 07:48:37AM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 04:45:04PM +0100, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > The nvidia-driver package needs to be recompiled with the latest
> > > FreeBSD-current sources, because of changes in the callout subsystem.
> > >
> > > If this is not possible, we can temporarily add the
> "_callout_stop_safe"
> > > symbol to the kernel for some transition time.
> > > ...
> >
> > While I'm running i386 (vs. amd64), I have not encountered the cited
> > issue.
> >
> > Given the above, I suspect that the fact that I have the line:
> >
> > PORTS_MODULES=x11/nvidia-driver
> >
> >
> > in /etc/src.conf has a fair amount of (positive) influence on that.
> >
> > (I track stable/10 & head -- on different slices -- daily on my laptop.)
> >
> > Peace,
> > david
>
> Thanks ALL! Adding the PORTS_MODULES=x11/nvidia-driver line to my
> /etc/src.conf
> file and rebuilding the kernel fixed it!
>
> Learn something new every day!  :)
>

Can anyone tell me where  PORTS_MODULES is documented? I don't find it in
the Handbook. It's not in src.conf(5). I've known of it since Doug B. (I
thing) wrote it. This is a very beneficial tool. It really needs to be well
documented.
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman_at_gmail.com
Received on Sun Jan 18 2015 - 04:22:07 UTC

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