ports/104725: [PORT] request nvidia-driver-devel

[Reed A. Cartwright]

>Number:         104725
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       [PORT] request nvidia-driver-devel
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Oct 24 01:30:24 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Reed A. Cartwright
>Release:        6-Stable
>Organization:
NCSU
>Environment:
FreeBSD orochi.scit.us 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #6: Mon Oct  2 16:33:39 EDT 2006     reed at orochi.scit.us:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP  i386

>Description:
Nvidia releases beta drivers for FreeBSD.  Would it be possible to add a x11/nvidia-driver-devel port that will install the beta drivers?

This is important because the beta driver has support for some of the new features of Gnome 2.16, but the normal driver does not.  Also in the recent security scare over the nvidia driver, the beta driver already had already fixed the problem.

Beta Driver Information:

http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_rel70betadriver.html

That page lists a 1.0-9625 driver although another page lists a more recent driver: http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_archive.html

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: