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

Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. lkchen at ksu.edu
Sat Sep 29 22:21:23 UTC 2012



----- Original Message -----
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:22:29 -0400 (EDT)
> Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. articulated:
> 
> > Well, I had to a bunch of reboots yesterday....so I tried
> > 304.51....no joy.  I then tried 295.75, and that works.
> 
> In the past, I have had problems that occurred when I updated a port
> and
> failed to rebuild the ports that were dependent upon that port. It is
> rare, but it does happen. In such instances, I find that
> "portmanager"
> used with the "-p" flag comes in extremely handy. I might suggest
> that
> you first update your ports tree and then run something like:
> "portmanager -u -l -y -p" It will do all of that automatically for
> you
> and provide you with a log file should something not work as
> expected.
> Just a thought.
> 

I mentioned in my first post that I already tried rebuilding everything on up.

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