nVidia driver with Xorg 7.3?

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Fri Sep 14 05:54:11 PDT 2007


"Scott I. Remick" <scott at sremick.net> writes:

> Anyone tried the current nVidia-driver with the new X.org 7.3? I heard 
> that there was a general (non-FreeBSD-specific) incompatibility, but just 
> saw that 7.3 was now in the ports system.

It's broken.  Apparently the X.org drop uses a new ABI.  [Thanks for
the note; I wouldn't have fully tested my upgrade otherwise.]

I guess I'll be dropping back to the open-source "nv" driver for now.
Mssr. Thoumie: could you add a warning to the UPDATING entry?

 - Lowell


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