Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:40:29 +0100 From: Emanuel Haupt <ehaupt@FreeBSD.org> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: danfe@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: nvidia 260.19.44 X11 display driver for FreeBSD amd64 Message-ID: <20110312114029.48e0d249.ehaupt@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4D7B3CA2.4060703@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <4D7B3CA2.4060703@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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"O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > nvidia offers a new FreeBSD /amd64 ready 64Bit driver, 260.19.44. We > are about to equipt several boxes with newer nVidia Fermi based > graphics cards (570 and 560Ti). On Linux boxes (Suse 10.XX, I do not > know, a recent one) a GTX570 won't work with the older nvidia 256.53 > driver, we had to update to the most recent 260.XX driver via YAST. > Now I suspect a similar problem in FreeBSD. > > Well, nvidia provides informations about how to install the driver > but I would prefere the ports-solution. I'm using this driver w/o any problems on 8.2-RELEASE amd64. Movies play much smoother with 'vdpau'. Emanuel
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