Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 12:18:02 -0400 From: Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVIDIA-driver-173 Message-ID: <ipk0tp$jeh$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <BANLkTinPv5JXsmeGWgjMYLYz70_nw9N-=g@mail.gmail.com> <20110501071035.1d52818e@scorpio>
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Jerry wrote: > On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 18:18:32 -0700 > Arthur Barlow <arthurbarlow@gmail.com> articulated: > >> Does anyone know if this will ever be supported for FreeBSD 8.x? I >> tried both the version in ports as well as the one directly from >> NVIDIA. No joy. Does anyone know of other possibilities? > > You might try putting the port's name in question into the body of > your post. Anyway, is there a specific reason that you cannot use the > latest version in the posts system, "nvidia-driver-256.53_1"? I believe > that nVidia released a newer version last year, 270.41.06, > but it is apparently not available in the ports system. You might want > to check with <danfe@FreeBSD.org> regarding that. > > All of the FreeBSD nVidia drivers are listed on: > <http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html>. > Also in /usr/ports/x11 are the ports for nvidia-driver, nvidia-driver-71, nvidia-driver-96, and nvidia-driver-173. It is unclear what/which may have been tried. -Mike
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