beware nvidia driver + make world

[Daniel Bye]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:10:40AM -0700, Mike Harding wrote:
> 
> There was recently a change to /usr/src/sys/proc.h, and after a
> rebuild of the world and kernel and subsequent reboot my system
> crashed and took some files with it.  This was because I hadn't
> rebuilt the nvidia driver so that it used this new proc.h file.
> 
> If you are using the nvidia driver, and do a make world, you may want
> to remove and reinstall the nvidia driver port before the reboot so
> that this doesn't happen to you.

Too late!  ;-)

Once I got the box up and running again (rebuilt kernel without device agp,
reinstalled nvidia-driver without WITH_FREEBSD_AGP=yes, prevent loading of
agp.ko on boot), I also needed to alter the XFree86 config file - my card
(an integrated NV15 nForce2) seems to return a slightly different BoardName
string when probed, which makes X choke.  Amending the value in the
BoardName directive to match the probed value fixed it for me, so be aware
of this, as well, if X won't start for you...

The correct value can be found in the error logfile dropped as X dies.

Dan

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