Difficulties getting nvidia-driver to work with latest x.org ports

[Kevin Oberman]

> From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk at googlemail.com>
> Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:08:44 +0000
> Sender: owner-freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org
> 
> Hi all
> 
> This weekend, I installed 7.1-RELEASE on my home PC (base only). I then
> updated to RELENG_7, updated the ports tree to the latest, and went
> about installing the latest x.org ports.
> 
> First off, the new xorg seems to have a bad bad regression - Xorg
> -configure is now largely useless, it generated a config with just
> ridiculous config. I'm still at work, but I'll post it when I get home,
> just crazy. It's still pretty simple to write from scratch though, so
> not too disastrous.
> 
> Secondly, and much worse, it seems the nvidia-driver is built against an
> older ABI incompatible version of xorg-server. It installs a
> library /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so which has a missing symbol
> "miZeroLineScreenIndex". I found this recent article[1] which seems to
> suggest replacing the nvidia installed version with the xorg version,
> which sounds dubious imho (I dont speak/read/understand Japanese at all,
> that may not be at all what it is saying!)
> I tried updating from the latest version in ports (177.80) to the latest
> on nvidias website (180.22), but they both still referred to
> miZeroLineScreenIndex.
> 
> I'll post full details of installed packages etc when I get home.
> Thankfully, the nv driver seems to work reasonabley well now in 2D!
> 
> If I was going to roll back xserver, what else would I need to roll
> back? Presumabley all drivers? libX11? My ports is a locally slaved CVS
> checkout as described in development(7), so this should be reasonabley
> straight forward...

I have been holding off on the new xorg until some of the dust settles,
but I suggest that you re-install nvidia-driver. This has fixed the
problem in the past.
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