From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 29 2:37: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E0EC37B401 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 02:37:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail102.csoft.net (lilly.csoft.net [63.111.22.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 728EC43E65 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 02:37:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zith@lilly.csoft.net) Received: (qmail 14841 invoked by uid 1876); 29 Sep 2002 09:40:45 -0000 Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 04:40:45 -0500 From: Nick Slager To: Adam Bender Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing nVidia drivers Message-ID: <20020929044045.A13792@zith.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from abender@andrew.cmu.edu on Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 02:33:31AM -0400 X-Homer: Whoohooooooo! Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Adam Bender (abender@andrew.cmu.edu): > I'd like to install drivers for 3D acceleartion and such for my nVidia > GForce 2 card. I've read several sites that point me in different places > for the drivers themselves, and nVidia's site has "Linux displayer > drivers", "graphics drivers", and "platform drivers". Exactly what > software do I need? How do I install it? Are there any sites that have > correct information about doing it in FreeBSD and not Linux? I'm running > FreeBSD 4.6.2 and XFree86 4.2. You need native FreeBSD drivers for your nvidia card. Official nvidia drivers do not exist. Several attempts have resulted in beta quality drivers at various stages, although 3D and GLX are not in the feature list. See http://nvidia.netexplorer.org/ Nick -- "We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty." -- Douglas Adams To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message