Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:16:09 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org> To: ajt <ajthomson@optushome.com.au> Cc: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org>, Daniel Leal <dleal@webvolution.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: kldload nvidia Message-ID: <20020117161532.I63432-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> In-Reply-To: <1011289649.91397.77.camel@athomson.prv.au.itouchnet.net>
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go on yahoo or google and search for freebsd nvidia... that will bring up a bunch of links... just click on the first one (from yahoo) go the the news link, and read what's there.. Ken On 18 Jan 2002, ajt wrote: > Where's everyone getting this nvidia driver from??? > > I would happily install freebsd on my laptop but it's got a gforce go > and requires the nvidia drivers to work.. > > what's the go?? > > ajt > > On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 05:13, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > Kenneth Culver writes: > > > ACtually the way this is SUPPOSED to be done is to edit /boot/loader.conf > > > and add a line that says: > > > > > > nvidia_load="YES" > > > > > > I'd say this is better because then the nvidia card is probed at bootup > > > and all it's resources are allocated the same way the rest of the cards on > > > the system are done. That said I'm not sure it makes that much difference > > > :-) > > > > > > Ken > > > > > > > Yes, I know, but the reason I recommended /etc/rc.local is that it > > will work on even older versions of FBSD without /boot/loader.conf. > > That's I wrote "most generic". > > > > --- > > Gary Jennejohn / garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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