From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 6 14:00:51 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B85AA106564A for ; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 14:00:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from relay.ptn-ipout02.plus.net (relay.ptn-ipout02.plus.net [212.159.7.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5505B8FC0A for ; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 14:00:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAD4TKkrUnw6R/2dsb2JhbADOToQKBQ Received: from ptb-relay01.plus.net ([212.159.14.145]) by relay.ptn-ipout02.plus.net with ESMTP; 06 Jun 2009 15:00:50 +0100 Received: from [84.92.153.232] (helo=curlew.milibyte.co.uk) by ptb-relay01.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1MCwS1-00085p-RA; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:00:49 +0100 Received: by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MCwS1-0002Na-Ar; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:00:49 +0100 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Jerry Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:00:48 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <20090606085158.383a477b@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <20090606085158.383a477b@scorpio> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906061500.49168.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Plusnet-Relay: a504f2980441f9bbe4f5331d4224a655 Cc: Subject: Re: Driver for nVidia Geforce 6150LE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:00:52 -0000 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 is: 180.44, which has actually been superseded four times since its 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