Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 22:02:53 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 360, Issue 10 Message-ID: <20110501220253.242dc399@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=sZ3bwOAMU5Lt70nrbuqkq9SEHZA@mail.gmail.com> References: <20110501120032.C345E10656FE@hub.freebsd.org> <BANLkTi=sZ3bwOAMU5Lt70nrbuqkq9SEHZA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 1 May 2011 10:01:46 -0700 Arthur Barlow <arthurbarlow@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry. I should have mentioned that I'm using a GeForce FX 5200 card. > Because of it's "age", NVIDIA says that it need the the > "nvidia-driver-173...", but NVIDIA also says they do not have a > version that works for FreeBSD 8.x. I was hoping someone in the > FreeBSD community might have ported it. Unfortunately, I'm no video > card hacker. nvidia-driver-173 doesn't work on amd64. If that's your issue then you may be better-off with the i386 version of FreeBSD. FreeBSD 8.x added the kernel features require by nvidia before they would implement a 64-bit version, but nvidia-driver-173 was already a legacy driver at that point.
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