ports/124450: nvidia-driver-173.14.05 does not work on some laptops

[Paul Dokas]

>Number:         124450
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       nvidia-driver-173.14.05 does not work on some laptops
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jun 10 15:50:00 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Paul Dokas
>Release:        FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p1 i386
>Organization:
University of Minnesota
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD host.umn.edu 7.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p1 #24: Mon Apr 21 13:39:41 CDT 2008 root at host.umn.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HOST i386

>Description:

  After upgrading my laptop's install ports, X no longer starts properly.
The laptop is a Dell Latitude D820 with an nVidia GeForce Go 7400 graphics
card.  Under the previous nvidia driver, it worked perfectly fine.  With
nvidia-driver-173.14.05, I'm see the same problem described here:

  http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=113929

Interestingly, this same driver works just fine on my desktop computer
(Dell Precision 380 with an nVidia Quadro FX 1400).

>How-To-Repeat:

  Upgrade certain nVidia equipted laptops to the latest nvidia-driver.

>Fix:

  According to the link given above, the only fix is to downgrade the
driver.  Perhaps we could just create a new port such as
x11/nvidia-driver-173 ?
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>Audit-Trail:
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