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Date:      18 Jan 2002 05:47:29 +1200
From:      ajt <ajthomson@optushome.com.au>
To:        Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org>
Cc:        Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org>, Daniel Leal <dleal@webvolution.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kldload nvidia
Message-ID:  <1011289649.91397.77.camel@athomson.prv.au.itouchnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <200201171713.g0HHDiX62736@peedub.jennejohn.org>
References:  <200201171713.g0HHDiX62736@peedub.jennejohn.org>

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Where's everyone getting this nvidia driver from???

I would happily install freebsd on my laptop but it's got a gforce go
and requires the nvidia drivers to work..

what's the go??

ajt

On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 05:13, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> Kenneth Culver writes:
> > ACtually the way this is SUPPOSED to be done is to edit /boot/loader.conf
> > and add a line that says:
> > 
> > nvidia_load="YES"
> > 
> > I'd say this is better because then the nvidia card is probed at bootup
> > and all it's resources are allocated the same way the rest of the cards on
> > the system are done. That said I'm not sure it makes that much difference
> > :-)
> > 
> > Ken
> > 
> 
> Yes, I know, but the reason I recommended /etc/rc.local is that it
> will work on even older versions of FBSD without /boot/loader.conf.
> That's I wrote "most generic".
> 
> ---
> Gary Jennejohn / garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org
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