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

Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. lkchen at ksu.edu
Sat Sep 29 00:10:33 UTC 2012



----- Original Message -----
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 03:35:07PM -0400, Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
> wrote:
> > So, now that its in the wild...I upgraded...and it broke my dual
> > monitor
> > desktop (at work).  Seems like gdm/gnome can't see the other
> > monitor.]
> > Tried rebuilding a bunch of other things, but didn't help.
> >  Reverting to
> > previous (295.71) has things working again.  Wonder what people
> > will do
> > for portdowngrade when CVS goes away.
> 
> No need for portdowngrade actually, you can always build the port
> against
> DISTVERSION of your choice, by doing:
> 
> 	make DISTVERSION=xxx.yy -DNO_CHECKSUM
> 
> This works most of the time since pkg-plist changes rarely, so it
> would
> even give you nice valid package.
> 
> Perhaps you could try new version, 304.51, this way and report us
> back if
> it fixes things for you?
> 
> ./danfe
> 

Well, I had to a bunch of reboots yesterday....so I tried 304.51....no joy.  I then tried 295.75, and that works.


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