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@@ -6,6 +6,24 @@ You should get into the habit of checking this file for changes each time you update your ports collection, before attempting any port upgrades. +20050630: + AFFECTS: users of x11/nvidia-driver + AUTHOR: danfe@FreeBSD.org + + Due to several complaints, new (unsupported) option had been added to port + Makefile: WITH_LEGACY_GPU_SUPPORT. Starting with version 7667, NVidia has + dropped support for numerous "legacy" GPUs, while this option allows to go + with previous version of driver (this does not apply to older versions of + FreeBSD, since you have to use version 6113 of driver (if you did not yet + upgraded to FreeBSD 5.3 or later) which has support for those GPUs). + + If you must use WITH_LEGACY_GPU_SUPPORT option, be sure to ``hold'' the + package by making appropriate entry in your pkgtools.conf, otherwise + portupgrade(1) will upgrade your port to latest NVidia release on the + next run, which is probably not what you want. + + Refer to x11/nvidia-driver/Makefile for further details. + 20050624: AFFECTS: users of lang/perl5.8 AUTHOR: tobez@FreeBSD.org |