[PC-BSD Testing] Fix for some nvidia systems
Kris Moore
kris at pcbsd.com
Mon Mar 9 10:38:21 PST 2009
Bill and others may experience issues with using the nvidia driver on
BETA1, related to libwfb being incorrectly replaced with nvidia's
version. Here is the fix:
Install PC-BSD 7.1-BETA1
Skip the video setup, or use vesa mode, (Do not use the nvidia driver,
it will remove some files incorrectly)
Once up at the desktop, download this file
http://www.pcbsd.org/~kris/nv-fix.tgz
Run these commands:
# rm /PCBSD/packages/*
# cd /
# tar xvzf nv-fix.tgz
Then reboot, and choose option 7 to re-run the x-setup tool. You should
have new nvidia drivers available, such as 180.37, and they won't delete
libwfb incorrectly anymore.
Bill, can you confirm this gets your card working again? I didn't catch
it before, because not all setups use the libwfb driver it seems, and
just ignored if it was bad.
Thanks!
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