Is nvidia-driver 256.53 expected to work on -current?

[Ralph Ellis]

Doug Barton wrote:
> Y'all will probably recall that I had a lot of problems with the 
> nvidia-driver, and video generally (esp. flash) on i386 -current. Well 
> I haven't had any problems recently because I haven't been using 
> FreeBSD. :)  But I have things I need to catch up on, so here's what I 
> did:
>
> 1. Bought a new hard drive, and installed a snapshot of amd64 -current 
> (this was actually done a while ago).
> 2. Yesterday I started configuring stuff, updated my source and ports 
> trees, rebuilt the world, customized the kernel, etc.
> 3. With a newly up to date system I built the latest version of the 
> nvidia-driver port, and started using it.
>
> My experience with it has been exactly the same as older versions of 
> the port on previous versions of i386 -current. Sometimes it runs fine 
> for a while, but whe n I exit the window manager (openbox) the system 
> hangs and I never get back to the command prompt. (I'm using startx to 
> try and minimize the number of variables.) Sometimes it will work fine 
> for an hour, maybe two, then the whole thing just hangs. All the stuff 
> is displayed on the screen, but the mouse won't move, I can't zap X, 
> or even switch to the console. I have to power off. This is 
> particularly frustrating because I haven't even loaded flash (or for 
> that matter firefox) yet.
>
> Windows and linux (ubuntu, with the nvidia driver) work great on this 
> same hardware, so I'm pretty thoroughly convinced that the problem is 
> with freebsd/current somewhere. In addition to the -current partition 
> I also installed amd64 8.1-RELEASE so I'll give that a go next, but I 
> wanted to ask here first if anyone else was having problems on -current.
>
>
> Doug
>
I am currently running the Nvidia  195 driver on amd64 9 - current from 
the ports tree. It works without problems.
When I tried to compile the 256 driver, it would not compile and said 
that it was not meant to work with 9 - current.
Hope this helps.
Ralph Ellis
ralphellis1 at netscape.ca