From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 8 16:12:25 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 2C196106564A for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 16:12:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhelfman@e-e.com) Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com (mail.experts-exchange.com [64.156.132.251]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D3218FC13 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 16:12:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhelfman@e-e.com) Received: from eggman.experts-exchange.com (unknown [72.29.180.81]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7A4B4169DFC; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 08:09:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by eggman.experts-exchange.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:12:22 -0700 Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:12:22 -0700 From: Jason Helfman To: Mike Clarke Message-ID: <20090608161220.GA33275@eggman.experts-exchange.com> References: <200906081115.16536.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> <200906081705.42989.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200906081705.42989.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p4 GENERIC X-Living-The-Dream: I love the SLO Life! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: Carmel , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which nVidea driver to install 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: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:12:25 -0000 I am not exactly sure which driver I am using between these two, however I have found that setting up the driver and display are great with these packages installed. I guess I would be using the most recent :) nvidia-driver-173.14.12 nvidia-driver-71.86.06 nvidia-settings-173.14.09 nvidia-xconfig-1.0_2 After you use the "nvidia" driver in your Xorg.conf file, I would suggest running, nvidia-xconfig, and then nvidia-settings while in X to configure the card. -Jason On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 05:05:42PM +0100, Mike Clarke thus spake: >On Monday 08 June 2009, Carmel wrote: > >> One last question; if I install the AMD 64 bit version of FBSD, will >> the NV driver work? I know that the regular one won't since it >> doesn't support 64 bit systems. > >I'm using i386 so have no direct experience of this but package versions >of the xf86-video-nv port are available for both i386 and amd64 so you >should have no problem. > >-- >Mike Clarke >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >