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On 30 April 2011 18:13, George Liaskos <geo.liaskos@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> What version of the driver are you using? Your card is supported by >= 270.41.06
> Should we send a pr? 256.53 is outdated and i don't see a reason to
> not use the latest stable version available.
>
> I use 270.x my self without issues, gnome3 is unusable with everything
> older than that.

I have just tried the latest freebsd/amd64 driver from nvidia's web
site, it is the same version you suggest
(NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-270.41.06.tar), and I get hard lockups on x.org
startup while still in text mode, so I had to revert to the ports
version.