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@@ -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. - - $FreeBSD$ |