A very recent driver (like 4.4) isn't expected to work with
4.1.0, but something like 4.3 *might* if you pass the -ignoreABI
flag to the server at startup. Using older drivers with newer
servers usually works, but using newer drivers with an older server
is a gamble because newer drivers often use newer features of
the server. You can't do it by default, which is why you have
to use -ignoreABI. I think the "nv" driver started using some Xv helper
functions exported by the server a some point. Don't remember if
it was 4.3 or 4.4 that did that. It's probably binary compatible
to that point. Compiling a newer driver against an older server
tree probably requires that you comment out some Xv code to get it
to build.
Mark.
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Charles Bacon wrote:
> Can the nv driver be backported to XFree86 4.1.0 ?
> I run FreeBSD 4.5-R on one computer, and am waiting for
> FreeBSD 5.2-Stable, but for now, sure would like graphics!
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