From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 7 21:04:36 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53F63106564A for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 21:04:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23C5F8FC13 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 21:04:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C8C5D46B29; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 17:04:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (smtp.hudson-trading.com [209.249.190.9]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 664D08A01F; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 17:04:33 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: S Roberts Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 17:03:41 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (FreeBSD/7.3-CBSD-20100217; KDE/4.3.1; amd64; ; ) References: <20100405025842.00002be5@unknown> <201004071448.39658.jhb@freebsd.org> <20100407213919.00001c0d@unknown> In-Reply-To: <20100407213919.00001c0d@unknown> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201004071703.41458.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:04:33 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: Dean Hamstead , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD amd64 - Which nvidia driver for NVIDIA GeForce G210M? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:04:36 -0000 On Wednesday 07 April 2010 4:39:19 pm S Roberts wrote: > Hi John, > > On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 14:48:39 -0400 > John Baldwin 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? No, it just works fine. I think the x11/nvidia-driver port might even be updated to use this driver on amd64 already. -- John Baldwin