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After some disk issues, I had to >reinstall my workstation and I'm currently fighting a losing battle. I >hope I'm missing something. I do feel a bit lost with all the changes >that have happened since I last actually did some under-the-hood stuff >in FreeBSD so I might well be going about this all backwards. > >I installed 13.0-RELEASE which went fine, but trying to get X to work >is failing. I have an old NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 which worked fine on >the old version (I think I had FreeBSD 10.2), now I'm trying to follow >the handbook instructions and download the driver directly from >NVIDIA's site. First I downloaded NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-460.84, which >built ok, but when starting X it says that my card is only supported >by the legacy driver -390, so I downloaded >NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-390.143. This one won't build as it say that the >driver does not support FreeBSD 13.0 So catch-22 so far. > >Is there some other way I should be getting the drivers or some way to >get either of these to work with me. I really don't have to buy a new >machine. I guess I could reinstall with an older FreeBSD version >again, but seems a bit wrong to do that. > >TIA, >Kristofer Is there a specific reason you are not using nVidia from the port's system? Port: nvidia-driver-390-390.143_1 Path: /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver-390 Info: NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL rendering Or, if need be: Port: nvidia-secondary-driver-390-390.143_1 Path: /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-secondary-driver-390 Info: NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL rendering o= n secondary device --=20 Jerry --Sig_/YLdeBJ4GnpmZsebvx8qULbs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQGzBAEBCAAdFiEELeCiu2K+9VmEYYgTgHBP8gv9FXcFAmDV2JAACgkQgHBP8gv9 FXfB/wv+LGnIlBpiRikQsbwUqtKGudm65rJ0NFo7V+Ja6Xdh3cg5MX0OH/lyLkKR hLD3gb/Q/DVKlGgZcFYu9YWkVZeMgcxrrlZ61/sOdg7VLGABuoZma8rce2km9iQ4 94W2MqwlRKu5Qw5Ti9K68NVIpEoeFwWC6Bz3JKEfbROINQmaFIna+NkCtGd6Rkxg bhlZ+G6D7Ye1x00RBhhq7KISAYUcFuJtaLwcbAvMAazkxvzzMZi6iq5/dXUOW6lk uN5fA1IvHoWICAgZuGOKXEIeIyPyIYKzhK8yo+WUnO6/zQqOW14oEYwCbwhPKvPW D+/vKfyybH1NlPS4VGeE8SzTtmJhpssASUKUr/cSMTtX1YhRXyKTeeI/4Iq3qCjL bPW0oNEXVNTh9DFD5nSxDkwa0JCN2kVeInmLh0WpjQh2LqHncwPer7g6ILj2JzUT 0nONi1vt5N2Z0zCK0b/4OtXm+hsA9ncDc37rOkBbAc7HAcOeVc21RHrHVr+flqtU +iX1Jb95 =TwfZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/YLdeBJ4GnpmZsebvx8qULbs--