CFT: x11/nvidia-driver major update to 304.xx series

Alberto Villa avilla at FreeBSD.org
Thu Sep 20 21:57:33 UTC 2012


On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at nsu.ru> wrote:
> As many of you had probably noticed, recently folks at NVidia decided that
> long-cooked three-hundred branch is stable enough to declare it Long Lived
> Branch.  Since ChangeLog from 295.71/.75 is gross, and I've been receiving
> mixed reviews for early 30x.?? versions, I am calling for testers to help
> me make weighted decision about updating the port to 304.43.  If, for some
> reason, 304.43 does not work for you, tell me how does version 295.75 feel
> (just do "make DISTVERSION=304.43 or 295.75 -DNO_CHECKSUM install" to test
> it out, pkg-plist is the same as current one).

After a couple of days of usage everything keeps working as usual; I
see absolutely no difference from old version.

nvidia0: <GeForce GT 230M> on vgapci0
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Alberto Villa, FreeBSD committer <avilla at FreeBSD.org>
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