Re: dfports nvidia-driver doesn't compile/install

[Joe Love <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unfortunately for me, that does break all the wonderful linux-based 
games that I'd like to play.. course, it's not like they run right now 
anyway, as some of them complain about not being able to find libX11.so.6.

Maybe I'll give that a try just to say that *something* is working. :)

-Joe

Andrew Atrens wrote:
> Joe Love wrote:
>
> > make: don't know how to make vnode_if.h. Stop
> > *** Error code 2
> >
> > Stop in /usr/dfports/x11/nvidia-driver/work/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-6113.
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /usr/dfports/x11/nvidia-driver.
> > #
> >
> > If anyone knows how to get through this, the help would be appreciated.
>
>
> Try disabling linux support (a #define in nv-dragonflybsd.h) ... I'm not
> 100% sure that this will fix the newer version 6 of the driver, but it did
> allow me to compile version 4 of the driver.
>
> Btw, if you have an nvidia motherboard, you might also want to tweak the
> probe code in nvidia_pci.c to only try attaching _your_ video card - in
> my experience the driver is too aggressive in attempting to attach nvidia
> pci devices other than graphics card.
>
> You'll want to do something like -
>
> === root@atrens-boistault (/dev/ttypa) /usr/home/atrens
> 1 -> pciconf -lv
> ...
> nvidia0@pci3:0:0:       class=0x030000 card=0x87021462 chip=0x025310de
> rev=0xa3 hdr=0x00
>     vendor   = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
>     device   = 'GeForce4 Ti 4200 [NV25.4]'
>     class    = display
>     subclass = VGA
>
>
> From this, my 'card id' is 0x0253.
>
> in nvidia_pci.c you'll want to change -
>
>    if (vendor != NVIDIA_VENDORID || device < 0x0020)
>         return ENXIO;
>
> to
>
>    if (vendor != NVIDIA_VENDORID || device != 0x0253)
>         return ENXIO;
>
>
> Admittedly this is a hack, but I haven't come up with anything
> better just yet :) :) ...
>
> Andrew.