Nvidia drivers and mem.ko module

[Henrik W Lund]

Ricardo Britto wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 #3 on my machine and I'm having problems 
>on installing nvidia-driver from ports.
>I get the following error: ERROR: Failed to load the NVIDIA module!
>KLD nvidia.ko: depends on mem - not available.
>
>That's saying about mem.ko module. Well, I cvsuped my tree - 'cause mem.ko 
>doesn't exit on my /boot/kernel directory - and it's not available for my 
>tag=RELENG_5_2. I tried to update my tree with the tag=. and it downloads mem 
>source, but it's incompatible to my freebsd version (when I try to build and 
>install my kernel I get errors about options that aren't available for that 
>version of kernel).
>
>I searched google about more info and all I could get was a discussion between 
>commiters about cvsup war/bug fix.
>In the end: I can't install nvidia-driver because it needs mem.ko module and I 
>can't install mem.ko module because it isn't cvsuped to my tree (or because 
>I'm too dummy :( ).
>
>Could anyone help?
>
>I appreciate in advance,
>
>Ricardo Britto
>
Greetings!
. is the -CURRENT branch tag, and the config file for the kernel may 
have changed since the creation of RELENG_5_2. You should use the 
GENERIC config file and modify it instead of using your old one.

-Henrik