DRI and ati AIW8500DV

Eric Anholt eta at lclark.edu
Fri Mar 28 21:13:19 PST 2003


On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 21:07, Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
> > I don't think so. A much newer version of the drm kernel modules is due
> > to be  committed to -STABLE. If you feel like testing it, you can get
> > the diff from  http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/files.html (the
> > diff is relative to  /usr/src/sys and you will need to create a few
> > directories to make it apply  cleanly).
> 
> Aha!  That got me a lot farther.  However, I would bomb out if glx was
> enabled.  Everything else would work, including having DRI, strangely. 
> Looking at the XFree86 log file found the answer to that new problem:
> 
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so
> (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
>         compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.3203
> 
> (This card was an upgrade from a GeForce 2, for which I had installed the
> binary driver.)  I probably just need to figure out how to clear that
> "wrong" module out, and get the right one.  Probably a reinstall of
> XFree86, or something less drastic...

pkg_delete your nvidia_driver package.  That looks like it should
restore everything.

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Eric Anholt                                eta at lclark.edu          
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/         anholt at FreeBSD.org



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