ports/107717: nvidia-driver-1.0.9746 relegates many GPUs to legacy status

[Glenn Johnson]

>Number:         107717
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       nvidia-driver-1.0.9746 relegates many GPUs to legacy status
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jan 09 20:50:11 GMT 2007
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Glenn Johnson
>Release:        FreeBSD-6.2 Prerelease
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>Environment:
>Description:
With this release of the nvidia driver, many GPUs have been relegated to
"legacy" status. There are now two legacy branches, the 1.0-96xx series
and the 1.0-71xx series. Take a look at Appendix A of the README for the
1.0.9746 driver: 

http://us.download.nvidia.com/freebsd/1.0-9746/README/appendix-a.html

This port update will no doubt break many people's Xorg setup but more importantly, prevent newcomers from getting a working graphical display.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
Either add another "WITH_LEGACY..." knob or preferably split the nvidia-driver port into three separate ports.
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