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Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 21:39:19 +0100
From: S Roberts <stacey@vickiandstacey.com>
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Cc: Dean Hamstead <dean@fragfest.com.au>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD amd64 - Which nvidia driver for NVIDIA GeForce G210M?
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Hi John,
   
On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 14:48:39 -0400
John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Sunday 04 April 2010 11:53:12 pm Dean Hamstead wrote:
> > Despite Nvidia's promise to update the driver for amd64 when 8.0
> > was released, this has yet to happen.
> > 
> > You should abuse them politely in their forums.
> 
> Huh?  The beta amd64 driver has been available for months (and I've
> been using it on my primary desktop in 7.x for months).
> 
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=148959
> 

Glad to see that post from you..,

Do you mind commenting whether or not the instructions there are good
to go, or whether or not there were any "gotchas" or the like, please?

Thanks.

Regards,

S Roberts