CURRENT breaks loading of nvidia.so

Bob Willcox bob at immure.com
Sun Jan 18 04:34:31 UTC 2015


On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 07:48:37AM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 04:45:04PM +0100, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The nvidia-driver package needs to be recompiled with the latest 
> > FreeBSD-current sources, because of changes in the callout subsystem.
> > 
> > If this is not possible, we can temporarily add the "_callout_stop_safe" 
> > symbol to the kernel for some transition time.
> > ...
> 
> While I'm running i386 (vs. amd64), I have not encountered the cited
> issue.
> 
> Given the above, I suspect that the fact that I have the line:
> 
> PORTS_MODULES=x11/nvidia-driver
> 
> 
> in /etc/src.conf has a fair amount of (positive) influence on that.
> 
> (I track stable/10 & head -- on different slices -- daily on my laptop.)
> 
> Peace,
> david

Thanks ALL! Adding the PORTS_MODULES=x11/nvidia-driver line to my /etc/src.conf
file and rebuilding the kernel fixed it!

Learn something new every day!  :)

Bob

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