Re: Nvidia drivers and mem.ko module

From: Henrik W Lund (henrik.w.lund_at_broadpark.no)
Date: 09/01/04

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    Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:18:41 -0700
To: netchaos@terra.com.br

    Ricardo Britto wrote:

    >Hi,
    >
    >I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 #3 on my machine and I'm having problems
    >on installing nvidia-driver from ports.
    >I get the following error: ERROR: Failed to load the NVIDIA module!
    >KLD nvidia.ko: depends on mem - not available.
    >
    >That's saying about mem.ko module. Well, I cvsuped my tree - 'cause mem.ko
    >doesn't exit on my /boot/kernel directory - and it's not available for my
    >tag=RELENG_5_2. I tried to update my tree with the tag=. and it downloads mem
    >source, but it's incompatible to my freebsd version (when I try to build and
    >install my kernel I get errors about options that aren't available for that
    >version of kernel).
    >
    >I searched google about more info and all I could get was a discussion between
    >commiters about cvsup war/bug fix.
    >In the end: I can't install nvidia-driver because it needs mem.ko module and I
    >can't install mem.ko module because it isn't cvsuped to my tree (or because
    >I'm too dummy :( ).
    >
    >Could anyone help?
    >
    >I appreciate in advance,
    >
    >Ricardo Britto
    >
    Greetings!
    . is the -CURRENT branch tag, and the config file for the kernel may
    have changed since the creation of RELENG_5_2. You should use the
    GENERIC config file and modify it instead of using your old one.

    -Henrik
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