Dell Inspiron 8200 & ACPI-0293 [was Re: Dell 4150 & ACPI-0293: *** Warning: Buffer created with zero length in AML]

[Vincent Poy]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Thierry Thomas wrote:

> Le Mer 25 jui 03 à 22:56:09 +0200, Vincent Poy <vince at oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>
>  écrivait :
> > > The nv driver runs fine on 5.1-Release; what's the difference with
> > > -CURRENT?
> >
> > 	Don't know but how did you get it to install?  Since I followed
> > the directions and it didn't work even after I modified the file so it
> > doesn't fail to build on versions 5.0 and higher.
>
> I'm just building form the port x11/nvidia-driver. 5.0 was not
> supported, but it was easy to fix (see PR ports/51447 or
> <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=51447>).

	The port seems to build fine, it just doesn't add the lines to
/boot/loader.conf which one has to do manually.  I didn't realize there
was a port of the driver but thanks for the pointer.


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