Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:00:48 +0100 From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Jerry <gesbbb@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Driver for nVidia Geforce 6150LE Message-ID: <200906061500.49168.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090606085158.383a477b@scorpio> References: <20090606085158.383a477b@scorpio>
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On Saturday 06 June 2009, Jerry wrote: > I did notice a driver on the nVidia page for FreeBSD x86, version # > 185.18.14, released June 5, 2009; however, the version is the ports > is: 180.44, which has actually been superseded four times since its > release by nVidia. > > Would the x86 driver work in 64 bit FreeBSD or do I have to install > the x86 version instead? No, in the absence of a 64 bit driver from Nvidia you'd need to use the nv driver included in the xorg-drivers port. I had quite a struggle to get the nv driver to give me a 1280x1024 display. I'm running the i386 version of FreeBSD on a Foxconn 6150M2MA motherboard and couldn't get the GeForce 6150 to work with the 180.44 driver but it works fine with the x11/nvidia-driver-96 port which I use in preference to the nv driver. The lack of a 64bit Nvidia driver was one of the reasons I installed the i386 version of FreeBSD on this 64bit platform. -- Mike Clarke
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