Pete, That soms it up quit nicely, except that, after reading some mailings, I had the impression I had to install the port drm-515-kmod for the NVida card. As the port did not exist, I did the make install that gave the compilation error.
Graphics hardware is a new territory for me, so I expect more failing experiments. Very grateful that experts like you are willing to lend a helping hand. Thanks, Edwin Ancaer Op wo 19 feb 2025 20:59 schreef Pete Wright <p...@nomadlogic.org>: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 09:48:03PM +0100, Edwin Ancaer wrote: > > Hello Pete, > > > > thanks a lot for your replay. Sorry to bother you guys for that. But I > have > > one more question if I may. > > > > The install procedure ends with: > > Please note that this package was built for FreeBSD 14.1. > > If this is not your current running version, please rebuild > > it from ports to prevent panics when loading the module. > > > > > > As I have FreeBSD version 14.2, should I really build from the port? > > yes that's most likely correct. looking at your original error it wasn't > clear > to me what the issue was. to cover the basic's - you had a recent > checkout of > both the 14.2-RELEASE source and the latest ports collection too right? > then > you went into graphics/drm-kmod and ran "make package" which resulted in > the > compilation exception? > > -pete >
