FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE

[bostik]

Hi all,

i just updated my freebsd box to 9.0 RELEASE and i tried to rebuild my NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-290.10 device driver.

It seems they check for FreeBSD Release and i get this error:

In file included from nvidia_ctl.c:14:
nv-freebsd.h:25:2: error: #error This driver does not support FreeBSD 9.x/-CURRENT!
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/local/src/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-290.10/src.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/local/src/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-290.10.

I'm triying to use nv drivers (xorg driver) but i wonder when driver will be updated so that i can use them with my favorite OS.

Thanx
Roberto

[zander]

You can remove the #error from the nv-freebsd.h header file to allow the driver to build/install. I'll file a bug to get the driver updated.

[bostik]

Hi Zander
thanx for your quick reply.

I've already think about skipping error the way you suggest and it compile correctly ("make") but entering "make install" command i get another error:

===> x11 (install)
===> x11/driver (install)
===> x11/extension (install)
===> x11/bin (install)
===> x11/man (install)
===> doc (install)
ERROR: Failed to load the NVIDIA module!
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/local/src/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-290.10.

I think is something related to kernel module loading.

in my dmesg i see:

KLD nvidia.ko: depends on kernel - not available or version mismatch
linker_load_file: Unsupported file type

If you think it can help please update the bug with those info.

Thanx
Roberto

[adamk75]

Are you sure your kernel source matches the running kernel?

[bostik]

Hi adamk75,

yes my sources match my kernel release:

just updated with cvsup

[root@mrburns ~]# uname -ri
9.0-RELEASE GENERIC

same error:

[root@mrburns ~]# kldload nvidia
kldload: can't load nvidia: Exec format error

[rhurlin]

Originally Posted by bostik

Hi adamk75,

yes my sources match my kernel release:

just updated with cvsup

[root@mrburns ~]# uname -ri
9.0-RELEASE GENERIC

same error:

[root@mrburns ~]# kldload nvidia
kldload: can't load nvidia: Exec format error

Are you really sure you rebuilt your kernel after updating the kernel sources? This is the vital step. The kernel must be of the same age or younger than the sources are. (After your cvsup the sources are younger than the kernel!)

In a second step you have to build and install new nvidia driver (don't forget to 'make clean' before).

BTW, isn't it easier to patch the existing nvidia port a little bit to let him build and install the driver for you? Changing the version number in x11/nvidia-driver/Makefile and after that doing 'make makesum' should be enough to prepare the drivers build.

Hope this helps,
Rainer

[bostik]

Hi Rainer,

thanx for help, I succesfully solved modifiyng Makefile to download new driver version 290.10 following instruction here:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread...nvidia+freebsd
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread...nvidia+freebsd

and installed misc/compat8x and everithing worked fine

Ciao
Roberto