- Mention that ``nvidia'' (or ``nvidia-modeset'' as of recently) can be put

  on ``kld_list'' variable in /etc/rc.conf as well (for later loading)
- Make s/nvidia/nvidia-modeset/ replacement suggestion more accurate because
  ``.ko'' suffix is omitted in syntax for both of those files
- Improve UPDATING wording for corresponding 20160829 entry accordingly

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index 1d6e9d4250d3..18a82e1b6733 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -9,18 +9,19 @@ you update your ports collection, before attempting any port upgrades.
   AFFECTS: users of x11/nvidia-driver
   AUTHOR: cem@FreeBSD.org
 
-  The Nvidia driver has been updated to 367.35.  In this version of the driver,
-  some important functionality has been broken out into a separate
-  nvidia-modeset.ko.
+  The NVidia driver has been updated to version 367.35.  Starting with
+  version 358.09, new kernel module was added, nvidia-modeset.ko.  This
+  new driver component works in conjunction with the nvidia.ko kernel
+  module to program the display engine of the GPU.
 
-  Users that experience a hang starting X or observe
+  Users that experience hangs when starting X11 server, or observe
 
-    [    43.243] (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated MetaModes:
-    [    43.243] (II) NVIDIA(0):     "NULL"
+	(II) NVIDIA(0): Validated MetaModes:
+	(II) NVIDIA(0):     "NULL"
 
-  in their Xorg.logs should replace 'nvidia.ko' with 'nvidia-modeset.ko' in
-  their loader.conf or rc.conf configurations.  (nvidia-modeset.ko has a
-  MODULE_DEPENDS relationship to nvidia.ko and will bring it in automatically.)
+  messages in their /var/log/Xorg.0.log file should replace ``nvidia''
+  with ``nvidia-modeset'' in /boot/loader.conf or /etc/rc.conf files,
+  depending on how they prefer to load NVidia driver kernel module.
 
 20160829:
   AFFECTS: users of security/sshguard
@@ -13445,6 +13446,4 @@ or
   'nobody' by default.  Make sure any existing configuration files are
   readable by that user.
 
-
-
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