ports/107811: Need UPDATING notice that x11/nvidia-driver no longer supports certain chipsets

[John Nielsen]

>Number:         107811
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Need UPDATING notice that x11/nvidia-driver no longer supports certain chipsets
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jan 11 03:40:13 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     John Nielsen
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD stealth.jnielsen.net 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Wed Jan 3 18:38:40 EST 2007 john at stealth.jnielsen.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/STEALTH i386


	
>Description:
	My card and several others that were supported by the 9631
	driver are no longer supported by the 9746 driver. From Xorg.log:

(WW) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 SD GPU installed in this system is
(WW) NVIDIA(0):     supported through the NVIDIA 1.0-96xx Legacy drivers.
(WW) NVIDIA(0):     Please visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for
(WW) NVIDIA(0):     more information.  The 1.0-9746 NVIDIA driver will ignore
(WW) NVIDIA(0):     this GPU.  Continuing probe...

	I was unable to find a list of all the cards dropped from this version
	of the driver. A forum post reported losing support for this card as
	well:

(WW) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X GPU installed ...


>How-To-Repeat:
	Update to latest nvidia-driver port while using a no-longer-supported
	card. Reboot. Fail to see X come up.
	
>Fix:
	There should be an entry in ports/UPDATING alerting users that the
	9746 driver does not support all the cards that the 9631 driver does.
	A pointer to a list of dropped cards (if you can find one) would be
	ideal. Instructions on using portdowngrade and HOLD_PKGS could also
	be appropriate.
	


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