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Date:      Wed, 3 Apr 2024 12:23:35 -0700
From:      Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org>
To:        Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org>
Cc:        David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>, x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: No GLX with older Nvidia card & drm-61-kmod?
Message-ID:  <136b73ab-8286-4b27-8c32-a7110f5084b6@nomadlogic.org>
In-Reply-To: <CALH631kTUgwxSWZBNpTxmuCnct88R-dXHfx9BcG2HPasobWtwQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 4/3/24 11:51, Gleb Popov wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 9:30 PM Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> wrote:
>> out of curiosity is this one of those nvidia "optimus" laptops where the display
>> is driven by the Intel GPU, but can offload to the Nvidia GPU?  I have one of
>> those and use the "nvidia-hybrid-graphics" driver with success.  Previous to
>> that driver I just disabled the Nvidia GPU to save power, but with this it has
>> run great.
>>
>> alternatively you might want to take a look at the nvidia-secondary-driver pacakge.
>>
>> -pete
>>
> nvidia-hybrid-graphics and nvidia-secondary-driver are the "old way".
> The "new" one is graphics/nvidia-drm-kmod

ah thanks for the clarification - i'll update my system to use the 
nvidia-drm-kmod package.

-p


-- 
Pete Wright
pete@nomadlogic.org




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