Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:45:38 -0500 From: LoH <lordofhyphens@gmail.com> To: nightrecon@verizon.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which nVidea driver to install Message-ID: <4A2D5C52.5020803@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <h0jjg4$u6c$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <BLU0-SMTP8613F19A51990C194F61A193460@phx.gbl> <h0hkvr$mtl$1@ger.gmane.org> <BLU0-SMTP55B1CCE2B42E2967C5B4D993470@phx.gbl> <h0jjg4$u6c$1@ger.gmane.org>
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Michael Powell wrote: > Section "Device" > # Driver "nv" > Driver "nvidia" > > Just change "nv" to "nvidia", and perhaps in Section "Module" > Load "glx" if you need to. > > > Also notice what RW said; I am behind the times wrt to how things have > changed. > > -Mike What I have found to work is to make the nvidia-driver port, but not install it (to get the dependencies). Then I would download the recent driver from nVidia's website (as of this email, 185.18.14), untar it and install that instead. If nvidia-xconfig doesn't work immediately, you can install it from ports w/o a problem (or do the configuration by hand). It's a little involved, but it gets the job done. nVidia's README for FreeBSD drivers: http://us.download.nvidia.com/freebsd/185.18.14/README/index.html -Joseph
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