ENOUGH! [Re: Nontrivial brokeness with new threads.]

Antony T Curtis antony.t.curtis at ntlworld.com
Thu Feb 26 03:27:09 PST 2004


On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 02:45, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 25. Februar 2004 03:19 schrieb Kris Kennaway:
> > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 03:08:10AM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote:
> > > At 4:41 PM -0700 2004/02/24, Scott Long wrote:
> > > > Please be more respectful to people asking these kinds of questions.
> > >
> > > 	The problem here is that Daniel's initial response to David's
> > > question was fine, but David's reply was snide and
> > > passive-aggressive.  Daniel responding in kind is not unexpected.
> > > David should have fully read the threads that he was referring to,
> > > and not been so flippant in the first place.
> >
> > Who cares, let's all just shut up and code :)
> 
> If I only could ;)
> 
> For those of you who just need the nvidia driver for Dual Head configuration 
> (like me) just backup /boot/modules/nvidia.ko and 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o and do a "make deinstall" 
> from /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver, then restore the nvidia.ko and 
> nvidia_drv.o
> Then you can delete libmap.conf.
> 
> Works perfectly here with -current from 14. Feb.

Great tip!

I did a make in the ports directory and then copied out the nvidia.ko
and nvidia_drv.o

And it works fine. Since I don't use OpenGL much, it's fine with me

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Antony T Curtis BSc     Unix Analyst Programmer
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/antony.t.curtis/



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