From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 17 13:16: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.yumyumyum.org (dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.171.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E26637B400 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:15:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 63454 invoked by uid 1001); 17 Jan 2002 21:16:09 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Jan 2002 21:16:09 -0000 Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:16:09 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Culver To: ajt Cc: Gary Jennejohn , Daniel Leal , Subject: Re: kldload nvidia In-Reply-To: <1011289649.91397.77.camel@athomson.prv.au.itouchnet.net> Message-ID: <20020117161532.I63432-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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