Re: pkg/46144: current NV video driver fails: no devices detected

["Martin S. Weber" <Ephaeton%gmx.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/46144; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Martin S. Weber" <Ephaeton%gmx.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/46144: current NV video driver fails: no devices detected
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 16:04:34 -0500

 On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 04:02:28PM -0500, Martin S. Weber wrote:
 > On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 07:45:02PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
 > > The following reply was made to PR pkg/46144; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > > 
 > > From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
 > > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > > Cc: 
 > > Subject: Re: pkg/46144: current NV video driver fails: no devices detected
 > > Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 19:40:11 +0000
 > > 
 > >  On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 07:30:00PM +0000, Ephaeton%gmx.net@localhost 
 > > wrote:
 > >   >        It's just getting annoying to be stuck in late 2008/early 2009
 > >   > package wise because you cannot really upgrade anything without it
 > >   > trying to upgrate the nvidia driver! :)
 > >  
 > >  The workaround for this is to revert the pkgsrc dir for the driver
 > >  package (and if necessary for the X server and other X server drivers)
 > >  so you can recompile the old versions.
 > 
 > Yeah, as I thought. Downgrading to 2.1.14 or 2.1.12 doesn't help...
 > 
 > Looking at the dependencies of modular-xorg-server, I think to remember
 > it was actually libpciaccess. Trying ...
 
 Okay, that was it. Downgrading to 2.1.12 of xf86-video-nv and libpciaccess 
0.10.8
 actually makes X work again. So the culprit is not xf86-video-nv, it is 
libpciaccess.
 
 -Martin