nVidia driver with Xorg 7.3?

[Lowell Gilbert]

Florent Thoumie <flz at xbsd.org> writes:

> Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>> "Scott I. Remick" <scott at sremick.net> writes:
>>
>>> Anyone tried the current nVidia-driver with the new X.org 7.3? I
>>> heard that there was a general (non-FreeBSD-specific)
>>> incompatibility, but just saw that 7.3 was now in the ports system.
>>
>> It's broken.  Apparently the X.org drop uses a new ABI.  [Thanks for
>> the note; I wouldn't have fully tested my upgrade otherwise.]
>>
>> I guess I'll be dropping back to the open-source "nv" driver for now.
>> Mssr. Thoumie: could you add a warning to the UPDATING entry?
>
> Thanks for reminding me, will do in a second.
>
> You have to make sure the Composite extension is disabled and start
> Xorg with startx -- -ignoreABI.

Having finally taken a minute to think about it, I'm fairly
sure that putting that option into the command line in
/usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers will have the same effect,
for xdm.  However, I won't have a chance to produce a full
(tested) recipe until tomorrow (perhaps tonight).

Be well.