Re: NVIDIA-driver-173

2011-05-01 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 18:18:32 -0700 Arthur Barlow arthurbar...@gmail.com articulated: Does anyone know if this will ever be supported for FreeBSD 8.x? I tried both the version in ports as well as the one directly from NVIDIA. No joy. Does anyone know of other possibilities? You might try

Re: NVIDIA-driver-173

2011-05-01 Thread Michael Powell
not available in the ports system. You might want to check with da...@freebsd.org regarding that. All of the FreeBSD nVidia drivers are listed on: http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html. Also in /usr/ports/x11 are the ports for nvidia-driver, nvidia-driver-71, nvidia-driver-96, and nvidia-driver

Re: NVIDIA-driver-173

2011-05-01 Thread Nikolaj Thygesen
-driver-96, and nvidia-driver-173. It is unclear what/which may have been tried. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: NVIDIA-driver-173

2011-05-01 Thread Michael Powell
for nvidia-driver, nvidia-driver-71, nvidia-driver-96, and nvidia-driver-173. It is unclear what/which may have been tried. -Mike [snip] 270.41.06 was released around a week ago, and runs fine here. The version in ports hasn't been updated for several releases. br - Nikolaj Quite some time

NVIDIA-driver-173

2011-04-30 Thread Arthur Barlow
Does anyone know if this will ever be supported for FreeBSD 8.x? I tried both the version in ports as well as the one directly from NVIDIA. No joy. Does anyone know of other possibilities? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Xorg and nvidia-driver-173 ABI

2009-04-09 Thread RW
On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:19:31 -0400 Michael Powell nightre...@verizon.net wrote: RW wrote: I picked-up the most recent xorg update a couple of days ago, and since then X has been failing to start with the binary nvidia driver, and is leaving the following in Xorg.0.log: (EE)

Re: Xorg and nvidia-driver-173 ABI

2009-04-09 Thread Michael Powell
option to override this check. -ignoreABI doesn't help. I presume that nvidia will eventually fix this for the current driver, but I'm using the legacy driver port x11/nvidia-driver-173. Is there any prospect of the nvidia driver working again on my hardware? If the answer is no, would the nv

Xorg and nvidia-driver-173 ABI

2009-04-08 Thread RW
this check. -ignoreABI doesn't help. I presume that nvidia will eventually fix this for the current driver, but I'm using the legacy driver port x11/nvidia-driver-173. Is there any prospect of the nvidia driver working again on my hardware? If the answer is no, would the nv driver benefit from