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Date:      Tue, 02 May 2017 22:45:58 +0200
From:      Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartmann@walstatt.org>
Cc:        x11@FreeBSD.org, Claudio Eichenberger <cei@yourshop.com>
Subject:   Re: NVIDIA geForce GTX 960
Message-ID:  <mvav-htrt-wny@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20170502213152.5ace361e@thor.intern.walstatt.dynvpn.de> (O. Hartmann's message of "Tue, 2 May 2017 21:31:52 %2B0200")
References:  <20170502142632.GA20029@yourshop.com> <a86v-nnun-wny@FreeBSD.org> <20170502213152.5ace361e@thor.intern.walstatt.dynvpn.de>

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"O. Hartmann" <ohartmann@walstatt.org> writes:

> Am Tue, 02 May 2017 19:57:20 +0200
> Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org> schrieb:
>
>> Claudio Eichenberger <cei@yourshop.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Dear X11 Team,
>> >
>> > Your driver xf86-video-nv doesn't support the NVIDIA geForce GTX 960 graphics card.  
>> 
>> x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv is deprecated[1], use x11/nvidia-driver* instead.
>> If you really need an open source driver try x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa.
>> 
>> [1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2010-March/049560.html
>
> Where is the nouveau driver? Isn't the nouveau driver the opensource driver for nVidia?
> It is missing for along time now.

nouveau DDX removed[1] non-DRM support years ago. NetBSD ported[2] it in 7.1
but other BSDs have shown little interest.

If you just want KMS (e.g. for UEFI or Wayland) then nvidia-driver
supports it since 364.16 but nvidia-drm.ko hasn't been ported. Like
missing native libcuda.so.1 NVIDIA is probably not interested unless you
buy enough Quadro cards. $$$ spent would be similar to buying AMD GPUs
then donating to FreeBSD Foundation to help porting/updating amdgpu. ;)

[1] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/xf86-video-nouveau/commit/?id=f8ac9e35bd20
[2] https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/NetBSD/



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