Re: Xorg NVIDIA proprietary driver -- little problem

[Petr Salinger <Petr.Salinger@seznam.cz>]

> Right!
> it doesn't want nvidia.ko that is in kernel, but the nvidia_drv.so, which in the end of the process is NOT found where it should. However, other *.so are there.
> But WHY should the Xorg server from kfreebsd build (which is based on glibc) need a module linked against BSD libc? Is that the way it was built?
> This is what I want to know.

No, the Xorg server from kfreebsd build wants a module linked against eglibc.
But you provide only binary from NVIDIA, which is build against BSD libc.
I do not believe that the nvidia_drv.so have been compiled on your box 
as you do not have sources for it.

Petr

> > So WHY would it say that "nvidia driver can't be found", if it is successfully kldloaded into kernel? Or is it looking for it in a different place???
> > This is what I want to know.
>
> Are you sure it wants "nvidia.ko" in kernel ?
> May be it wants "nvidia_drv.so", which is linked against FreeBSD libc,
> not our eglibc.
> $ readelf -d NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-260.19.36/obj/nvidia_drv.so
>
> Similarly also other .so objects.