Re: Nvidia issue with CURRENT

From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 18:17:42 +1000
On Monday, 23 April 2018 at  9:55:40 +0200, Mariusz Zaborski wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 05:51:01PM +1000, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> On Monday, 23 April 2018 at  9:00:33 +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
>>> On Sun, 22 Apr 2018 14:38:55 +0200  Mariusz Zaborski <oshogbo_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> In /etc/src.conf , therefore you should add something similar to (like I added
>>> to mine):
>>>
>>> PORTS_MODULES=
>>> PORTS_MODULES+=                         x11/nvidia-driver
>>> PORTS_MODULES+=                         emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod
>>>
>>> This is one of the great advantages of having an operating system which you can
>>> compile yourself.
>>
>> Yes, but this has nothing to do with the bug.  Clearly Marisuz and I
>> have the configuration correct, but something has changed in the last
>> few months.
>
> Yea this is a known issue so I rebuild nvidia-driver.
> I'm just not sure if this is a problem with kernel or with the
> driver itself.

Almost by definition, it's a driver issue.  Something in the kernel
has changed which makes it no longer work.

>> Marisuz, as I commented, your log wasn't appended to the message I
>> received.  What is your hardware?
>
> https://people.freebsd.org/~oshogbo/Xorg.0.log

A brief scan doesn't show anything very similar to my issues.  I'll
look again tomorrow when I have time.

Did you try the most recent driver?

Greg
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