From nobody Tue Nov 30 17:15:24 2021 X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B279418A9929 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 17:15:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.freebsd.org (smtp.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::24b:4]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "smtp.freebsd.org", Issuer "R3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4J3TPW43YSz4jWY; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 17:15:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [192.168.0.88] (unknown [195.64.148.76]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: avg/mail) by smtp.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0F77671DB; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 17:15:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <9b14c3fc-67dc-b07c-6e2c-d3d9ada38abd@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 19:15:24 +0200 List-Id: Technical discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 Thunderbird/91.3.0 Subject: Re: Call for Foundation-supported Project Ideas Content-Language: en-US To: "Floyd, Paul" , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <861r36xzpe.fsf@phe.ftfl.ca> <371b758c-1efa-b5df-6437-ce4f06369383@gmail.com> <23c3e735-22b5-7528-e311-d75657c33a69@gmail.com> From: Andriy Gapon In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=freebsd.org; s=dkim; t=1638292527; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=/1+E12zw77GUiNsmwSgY/a2RaTQPaOx/k2M0Weaic40=; b=UD4UGrn/iBIErXoIeSngmpFzMmYLUrPHNdhzt+yUVoWHwiwO56nusE9TX+BFEyoppOGL+2 CvW4Al45vDsuJyQ5YBomVVhXS7DfewFj/dJPT1tA8UiEcW3sXSld3AQ/w9tgorGWo2YCwc xildDbt7efokPgnme4j2101e7R6OERHnlBl2k6OXaF4eFjYuPypCzGfvxyVPDLTJXcRVcK ZdsZbV1wfwRdOxkPDaxLRPwtgeLiZmRQB1ejYT7gTAfTnd0KyXDvXJCXBX/8aSVKzBUMNg yA/0jCzbY9ZvcdSqTr3uPNfRzBoU1tcl/ev3vAA2fi2fn0FXwVHOeAHCKnzoCw== ARC-Seal: i=1; s=dkim; d=freebsd.org; t=1638292527; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; b=n7aLXuKoGeI+bMoXUU5fLx/lLilu2v7e2upD6d2bQDWs39YOIXfEdg4NW2att2/PVjFCq2 G2BbTVE8WcvRR89SOsXfWI8qYYZ20FNlj+AyrrvT23VsLRhvLo4AVDjMyRh5xOiTAI97TD YG06oJL/dlBuTgIYvl0BRIUiafrQvFdRsnesYTjHzJjqvLzr8WXHszRAxvBXP8+8NpTrVE L7X13Zo1gp3uHfrXIbVPrDxGpmqutHz50i0bzomWIchk3pBZ3uzT26EHgGZo1QrZrFD1lr skPzOBeZsUskxxUJjRtaL1ej5qLE4Dd882Ehw5eysniPTdy+x5sw3mBEu1fTmA== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx1.freebsd.org; none X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N On 30/11/2021 16:03, Floyd, Paul wrote: > > On 2021-11-30 14:50, Jason Bacon wrote: >> >> If your nVidia cards are basically landfill, like some of mine, and you don't >> care about 3D support, xf86-video-nv still works in some case that would >> otherwise call for v304.  I wonder if it would be a simple matter to add >> support to it for some additional older hardware supported by v340.  Yes, I >> know nv is deprecated, but this may be the only solution for ancient hardware. >> > > No, not quite that bad. I do have one old workstation running Solaris 11.3. If > ever that gets upgraded, it'll also be most of the hardware in the box. > > My FreeBSD machine has a GT-730 based card. When it boots linux, it uses the 390 > driver. For some reason on FreeBSD 340 works but not 390 (at least that was the > case when I installed, ~18 months ago, I should perhaps try again). Just as a data point, nvidia-driver-470.86 seems to work well for my GT 730: nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms 470.86 Tue Oct 26 21:43:42 UTC 2021 nvidia0: on vgapci0 -- Andriy Gapon