New nvidia driver obstacle

Emiel Kollof coolvibe at hackerheaven.org
Wed Apr 13 00:58:45 PDT 2005


On Wednesday 13 April 2005 04:48, justin at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > The Xorg/XFree86 graphics driver part depends heavily on a FreeBSD5
> > userland
> > (KSE, TLS and (presumably) _their_ libc5) and hence will not load. No
> > crashes
> > and other nasty stuff, but unresolved symbols are plagueing me. No love
> > :(
> >
> > I will keep you guys posted about any progress.
>
> This may be obvious, but if this turns out to be unworkable, we need to
> keep the older version around and available.

Nvidia keeps the older versions of their drivers on their respective 
downloadsites, so no worries there. And even if they fix it for us _now_, the 
libc version bump isn't going to help either :)

Maybe I should look at the driver again after we bumped libc. Right now 
there's no quick fix possible. I'll make a patch (not a dfport) anyway and 
post it to submit@ for people to horse around with (but mainly for myself for 
archival purposes) :)

Cheers,
Emiel
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