On 10/27/12 07:50, Gary Aitken wrote: > running 9.0 release > > Being frustrated with my radeon hd-5550 video card which occasionally > (once a week or so) goes into some kind of reset loop, filling up > Xorg.0.log and crashing the system because /var is full... > > I picked up an asus nvidia gt 610. > Downloaded the nvidia driver and tried to build it. > > make ominously reports: > ld: Relocatable linking with relocations from format elf32-i386-freebsd > (nv-kernel.o) to format elf64-x86-64-freebsd (nvidia.ko) is not > supported. > > Where is the elf32-i386-freebsd stuff coming from? > I just unpacked the driver in a tmp directory and did a make install there. > > I found the following which implied it is a make problem in 9.0: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-toolchain/2011-August/000265.html > > I'm guessing it can be made to work but I need to define appropriate make > architecture variables, and I'm not sure how to do dat. > Hints? > > BTW, can anyone explain why Xorg.*.log doesn't get closed and a new file > opened when it gets rather large and then rotate the way syslogs normally do? > It seems to rotate only when the server is restarted, or at least that's all > I've observed.
My apologies for the original double posting; saw a temporary reject in my maillog and thought it would turn into a real one due to a past problem. I found the following patch and applied it, http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org/msg00256.html Also discovered I had downloaded the x86 version instead of the 64bit version. "make CC=clang CXX=clang++ install" seemed to work; now on to testing it. Sorry for the mixup. Gary _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
