Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 15:06:13 -0800 From: Patrick Mahan <plmahan@gmail.com> To: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ports nvidia driver vs NVIDIA provided driver Message-ID: <CAFDHx1%2BXv-HSzOk4NhZsLXhy49yJPot0caX-hyf-wmCJPENKiQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGBxaXkpxKu6oDVz4wof2tOHXGZ=qONX5=KY0CXs24=6DstCVQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFDHx1LGQU4Xpte5H3iBo2xj5yFraf8q-uC_qNkNV%2B=%2B=TPwJw@mail.gmail.com> <CAGBxaXkpxKu6oDVz4wof2tOHXGZ=qONX5=KY0CXs24=6DstCVQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 3:00 PM Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 5:51 PM Patrick Mahan <plmahan@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have an older GeForce GTS 450. For years after every OS upgrade I have >> unpacked the latest tar file from NVIDIA that contains the driver >> supporting my graphics card, built and installed and keep on going. >> > > My GeForce GTS 750 works fine with the latest x11/nvidia-driver and it > compiles with no issue at all on 12.1. If your not used to the newer > driver you might want to read up on how to load it (you want to load > modeset not the the raw driver for example). > > > I'm not referring to building the x11/nvidia-driver, but building the driver you can get directly from Nvidia - NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-390.116.tar.gz I am wondering if I should bother working out how to build it in favor of just using the x11/nvidia-driver package. Thanks, Patrick
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