Updating X.org FreeBSD ports to 7.3

Robert C. Noland III rnoland at 2hip.net
Sun Sep 9 18:46:51 PDT 2007


On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 18:21 -0700, sarek wrote:
> This is probally a really dumb question but after repeatingly searching the
> web I can find the answer:
> 
> After (or before) gunziping the file how do I actually patch my ports tree
> with the updates.... patch<xorg7.3.diff asks for the dist file

cd /usr/ports
zcat ~/xorg73.diff.gz | patch -p1

robert.

> I disperatly need this this since 7.2 doesn't support my card and from what
> I can tell 7.3 does (nvidia 8400 gs pci-e).... maybe someone can give me an
> other workaround:
> 
> 1. nvidia-driver reconizes it
> 2. nvidia-xconfig reconizes it with the --enable-all-gpus option
> 3. lspci (in pciutils) correctly identifies it
> 4. When I run X I get no devices found even after I set the BusID correctly
> 
> config:
> 
> 6.2 latest cvsup version (as of two hrs ago)
> nvidia driver 1.0.14
> curring using standard 7.2 xorg meta-port
> 



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