From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 1 21:03:00 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F01D1065672 for ; Sun, 1 May 2011 21:03:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2BF68FC0A for ; Sun, 1 May 2011 21:02:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf23 with SMTP id 23so5054194wyf.13 for ; Sun, 01 May 2011 14:02:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to :references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=IMJS747mgJSHn7eM0tWkmSHkSzePbl/AwZP2QNQsMH8=; b=E3gd+PbdWu2DMDimfILzPyxAXP5VXeq7MTYUSe6CuVOYuTw/AeE7VpLdXBG9AyDZY3 EDiR9O518blDKl1ApEBbIPPXc0BgFLH7/n2rdqu0kR9B8gNXLj3aGDaNZTQbfSeXqlnD 4a5PH/qgummWbM8MrfGTReiMet8TczvcSI8s4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=kwqTi0O1fO/N9i66QHxJZoA768X3JbM+qLKahT2oxqLfYZUA2dWVv+6JiZBxZrlBKe 3KGYFegJJh1LAH4rTYxrnlu9LYLybt+xTGOzAWieaQ1yoMZhvF8mJZTUXH6ANxBm8wVR ngaI4Pq8fOvcxWjGAXkm6R5d8mgBSUcDh0eVE= Received: by 10.227.7.87 with SMTP id c23mr3257862wbc.108.1304283778551; Sun, 01 May 2011 14:02:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (87-194-105-247.bethere.co.uk [87.194.105.247]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o23sm2998967wbc.27.2011.05.01.14.02.56 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 01 May 2011 14:02:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 22:02:53 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110501220253.242dc399@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20110501120032.C345E10656FE@hub.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.22.1; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 360, Issue 10 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 21:03:00 -0000 On Sun, 1 May 2011 10:01:46 -0700 Arthur Barlow 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.