Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 12:28:00 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: Kristofer <gundoghusse@protonmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Old NVIDIA card, new FreeBSD = failure? Message-ID: <36919.1624649280@segfault.tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <uZ6VybGvR6ddjj1CVAd0CMNpgvfbc65oLMD5y8r7OPur5j7flNkWuLoxJAueOHkyAJoOW68fE1zpTrvk18VPxSU3drao03Lv0n8UM6ge3y0=@protonmail.com>
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In message <uZ6VybGvR6ddjj1CVAd0CMNpgvfbc65oLMD5y8r7OPur5j7flNkWuLoxJAueOH= kyAJoOW68fE1zpTrvk18VPxS U3drao03Lv0n8UM6ge3y0=3D@protonmail.com>, Kristofer <gundoghusse@protonmai= l.com> wrote: >I installed 13.0-RELEASE which went fine, but trying to get X to work is = failing. >I have an old NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 which worked fine on the old version= ... I have a simimar problem, since FreeBSD these days no longer fully support= s my admittedly ancient AMD-based video card... and as a result, I sometimes get kernel crashes (althought not too frequently). I don't think there is anything to be done about these kinds of problems unless you are willing & able to roll up your sleeves and fix the video drivers that are of interest to you yourself. The next best altetrnative, short of purchasing all new hardware, is to just buy & install a different and newer video card. Regards, rfg P.S. It would be Good if whoever does work on the video card support in FreeBSD could create and maintain a short list of "cheap" video cards that are actually supported now, and that should remain so for at least the next few years.
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