[wplug-bsd] FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT + nVidia driver problem

[Poyner, Brandon]

It appears you are correct, there isn't a -STABLE for FBSD 5 yet.  It
appears as if that branch will be created after 5.2-RELEASE is forked
off.  In my experience it's best to steer clear of STABLE and CURRENT
anyway, unless you're willing to deal with unpredictability.  i.e., if
you find a bug that is fixed in CVS, you might have to perform a cvsup,
buildworld and buildkernel because any changes in world might have
matching changes in the kernel.  And there's no guarantee a -STABLE
kernel will even boot (been there, seen that).  That may be perfectly ok
if you're doing this as a hobby.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/5-roadmap/index.html

If your sound card works with -STABLE but not 5.1-RELEASE you can
probably find somebody who has back ported the change to RELEASE.

Brandon Poyner
Network Engineer II
CCAC - College Office
412-237-3086


-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin Slavin [mailto:bslavin_list at wavecrazy.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 12:08 PM
To: wplug-bsd at wplug.org
Subject: Re: [wplug-bsd] FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT + nVidia driver problem


Thanks for the input guys.

I do have a question, though: I was under the impression that there was 
not a 5.1-STABLE branch (probably incorrectly assumed). I thought this 
because, on the ports page, it lists the options for 4.8-RELEASE, 
4.9-RELEASE, 4.9-STABLE, 5.0-RELEASE, 5.1-RELEASE, and 5.1-CURRENT.

If there is a -STABLE branch for 5.1, I'll happily use it (and hope my 
sound card works).

In regards to the nVidia driver being broken in -CURRENT, I looked 
around the archives and found only a few mentions of the issue, and saw 
that some people had been able to get it working while others had not...

I was hoping to be lucky... I guess not.

  --Ben

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