Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 18:48:52 -0800 From: Patrick Mahan <plmahan@gmail.com> To: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ports nvidia driver vs NVIDIA provided driver Message-ID: <CAFDHx1%2BgM=kHLgMUFDwi2=KgH4cb%2BgK5GHgRhVydX=RHkEruwQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGBxaXksFrLbbuAHAns9tdy6c60ND%2B58K1sfYbUgYY-g77B=ig@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFDHx1LGQU4Xpte5H3iBo2xj5yFraf8q-uC_qNkNV%2B=%2B=TPwJw@mail.gmail.com> <CAGBxaXkpxKu6oDVz4wof2tOHXGZ=qONX5=KY0CXs24=6DstCVQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAFDHx1%2BXv-HSzOk4NhZsLXhy49yJPot0caX-hyf-wmCJPENKiQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAGBxaXksFrLbbuAHAns9tdy6c60ND%2B58K1sfYbUgYY-g77B=ig@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 3:12 PM Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 6:06 PM Patrick Mahan <plmahan@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 3:00 PM Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 5:51 PM Patrick Mahan <plmahan@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I have an older GeForce GTS 450. For years after every OS upgrade I >>>> have >>>> unpacked the latest tar file from NVIDIA that contains the driver >>>> supporting my graphics card, built and installed and keep on going. >>>> >>> >>> My GeForce GTS 750 works fine with the latest x11/nvidia-driver and it >>> compiles with no issue at all on 12.1. If your not used to the newer >>> driver you might want to read up on how to load it (you want to load >>> modeset not the the raw driver for example). >>> >>> >>> I'm not referring to building the x11/nvidia-driver, but building the >> driver you can get directly from Nvidia - >> > >> NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-390.116.tar.gz >> > > There is *ZERO* difference between the one you can download and the one in > ports. > > Hmm, hadn't realized those had been added. I guess I should have done some more reading, I had assume (incorrectly) these were the nv driver which didn't support the full Nvidia functionality. Cool one less worry. Thanks, Patrick > > -- > Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org >
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