x11/nvidia-{driver, settings, xconfig}: why not the latest available version (290.10)?

Mark Linimon linimon at lonesome.com
Wed Dec 28 21:37:25 UTC 2011


On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 04:33:58PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 04:44:04PM +0800, Denise H. G. wrote:
> > 290.10 has some issues on text redrawing as far I experience. I have
> > also been running 290.10 for quite a while. Some apps, especially emacs
> > and gnome-terminal will fail redrawing text areas while, e.g. scrolling.
> > And x11 cursor cannot sometimes be displayed correctly.
> > 
> > When I downgrade to 285.09.05, things seem to be OK.
> 
> Yes, there are existing issues with their latest version, which delaying
> update of the port.  But we'll get there, eventually.  ;-)

Perhaps an addition to http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsNotUpgraded is in
order?

mcl


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