nvidia-driver 256.35 released
Sean C. Farley
scf at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jun 23 16:25:25 UTC 2010
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 08:30:54PM -0500, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
>> 2010/6/22 Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org>:
*snip*
>>> Sure, I will take care of plist issues upon the upgrade. What is
>>> more important right now is driver stability issues people had been
>>> having. I must rely on other people testing since I was not able to
>>> reproduce most of them in my local environment.
>>
>> So what exactly do I have to do to test this?
>> in the Makefile just
>>
>> -DISTVERSION?= 195.36.24
>> +DISTVERSION?= 256.35
>
> I would suggest to start with 195.36.31, as 256.xx are early betas.
> Ideally, I want a stable version in 195.36.yy series before start
> looking at upcoming 256 ones.
The 195.36.24/amd64 driver gives me no additional problems over
195.36.15 (current version in port) for a GeForce 8800 GTS. I see no
195.36.31 for amd64 available from nVidia.
Since the amd64 versions were beta until the 256 series, Zander was
blessing us--thank you!--with releases of it. [1]
Sean
1. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=150672
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