On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:01:24 +0100, "Karel J. Bosschaart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:29:30PM -0700, Robin Schoonover wrote: > > > > Or maybe it was only partially installed (and some of the opengl libs > > weren't). That doesn't make sense... So I reinstalled the > > nvidia-driver from ports, and tried running tuxracer again. Doh! > > Crashed X. Of course, GLX isn't loaded, so it gets confused, so I'll > > just have to restart X....and I get this message: > > > > (II) [GLX]: Initializing GLX extension > > > > Well, that looks promising. Fire up Descent 3 and....Wow. Descent 3 > > is a lot different from the first one. So much higher resolution... > > > > Well, thanks for the help. (although this may be a bad thing..how will > > I get -anything- real done??) > > > Maybe you did a portupgrade or reinstall of XFree86-Server? This will > overwrite some files installed by the nvidia driver. I'm always > reinstalling nvidia-driver after upgrading XFree86-Server/libraries > just to be sure. It's also necessary to reinstall the nvidia driver > after upgrading FreeBSD.
I just realized that was exactly what happened. (I already had been remembering to reinstall nvidia-driver after updating FreeBSD, but forgot about XFree86) > I prefer to reboot the machine after any nvidia-driver reinstall to > be entirely sure that I have the newest kernel module loaded. Yes, > that's ugly, but I got a bit reluctant on kldunload/kldload'ing this > sort of critical things. My home desktop doesn't have a large uptime > anyway as I'm turning it off if I don't need it. I know the nvidia driver is the same. I didn't even have this machine before the last update (July). (But it might be a good idea anyway...) -- Robin Schoonover (aka End) # # Instant ice: just add water and freeze. # _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
