Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 19:59:19 -0400 From: Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVIDIA-driver-173 Message-ID: <ipkruj$kr5$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <BANLkTinPv5JXsmeGWgjMYLYz70_nw9N-=g@mail.gmail.com> <20110501071035.1d52818e@scorpio> <ipk0tp$jeh$1@dough.gmane.org> <4DBD8B61.8040605@diamondbox.dk>
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Nikolaj Thygesen wrote: > On 05/01/2011 18:18, Michael Powell wrote: >> Jerry wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 18:18:32 -0700 >>> Arthur Barlow<arthurbarlow@gmail.com> articulated: >>> >>>> Does anyone know if this will ever be supported for FreeBSD 8.x? I >>>> tried both the version in ports as well as the one directly from >>>> NVIDIA. No joy. Does anyone know of other possibilities? >>> You might try putting the port's name in question into the body of >>> your post. Anyway, is there a specific reason that you cannot use the >>> latest version in the posts system, "nvidia-driver-256.53_1"? I believe >>> that nVidia released a newer version last year, 270.41.06, >>> but it is apparently not available in the ports system. You might want >>> to check with<danfe@FreeBSD.org> regarding that. >>> >>> All of the FreeBSD nVidia drivers are listed on: >>> <http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html>. >>> >> Also in /usr/ports/x11 are the ports for nvidia-driver, nvidia-driver-71, >> nvidia-driver-96, and nvidia-driver-173. It is unclear what/which may >> have been tried. >> >> -Mike [snip] > > 270.41.06 was released around a week ago, and runs fine here. The > version in ports hasn't been updated for several releases. > > br - Nikolaj > Quite some time back Nvidia split the driver collections into recent and legacy. The newest latest driver package does not have any support for old cards previous to a certain time. For cards that old you must use one of the old legacy driver sets. -Mike
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