cvsup 06/05/2003 breaks nvidia driver

[jimd_NOSPAM at siu.edu]

Thanks for the suggestion about recompiling the nvidia driver, but I do after
each kernel compile and install, so that isn't the answer, though not a bad
idea. Recompiles of both the Linux-nvidia-port and the standalone-nvidia
driver failed, so I am in the process, now, of backing out of everything that
was updated.

Are there any suggestions for better diagnosing of the problem?


On  5 Jun, Scott Long wrote:
> jimd_NOSPAM at siu.edu wrote:
>> I am not on my 5.1-BETA2 system right now, so I don't have any useful
>> details, but after CVSuping /usr/src early 05/06/2003 (after midnight), then
>> build world and recompiling and installing "my" kernel, the nvidia driver
>> "checks out" when X is loaded with a failure to initialize the driver.
>> 
>> The system in question has run 5.1-BETA1 and earlier 5.1-BETA2 code before
>> without any nvidia driver problem.
>> 
>> In the meantime, any suggestions on how to provide useful information, other
>> than just the XFree86.0.log file, would be helpful. I have used both of the
>> "native" nvidia driver and the ports-linux version (once), but tend to stay
>> with the "native" version (1.0-3203).
> 
> There was yet another ABI change recently that affected the nvidia
> driver.  The only thing to do is just recompile that driver.
> 
> Scott