Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 22:52:53 +0100 From: S Roberts <stacey@vickiandstacey.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Dean Hamstead <dean@fragfest.com.au>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD amd64 - Which nvidia driver for NVIDIA GeForce G210M? Message-ID: <20100407225253.0000411e@unknown> In-Reply-To: <201004071703.41458.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <20100405025842.00002be5@unknown> <201004071448.39658.jhb@freebsd.org> <20100407213919.00001c0d@unknown> <201004071703.41458.jhb@freebsd.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hi John, On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 17:03:41 -0400 John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wednesday 07 April 2010 4:39:19 pm S Roberts wrote: > > Hi John, > > > > On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 14:48:39 -0400 > > John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > > On Sunday 04 April 2010 11:53:12 pm Dean Hamstead wrote: > > > > Despite Nvidia's promise to update the driver for amd64 when 8.0 > > > > was released, this has yet to happen. > > > > > > > > You should abuse them politely in their forums. > > > > > > Huh? The beta amd64 driver has been available for months (and > > > I've been using it on my primary desktop in 7.x for months). > > > > > > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=148959 > > > > > > > Glad to see that post from you.., > > > > Do you mind commenting whether or not the instructions there are > > good to go, or whether or not there were any "gotchas" or the like, > > please? > > No, it just works fine. I think the x11/nvidia-driver port might > even be updated to use this driver on amd64 already. > I just checked (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/) and it does indeed appear to already be included. Excellent! Thanks again, John. Regards, S Roberts
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20100407225253.0000411e>