Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 18:12:20 -0500 From: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Patrick Mahan <plmahan@gmail.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ports nvidia driver vs NVIDIA provided driver Message-ID: <CAGBxaXksFrLbbuAHAns9tdy6c60ND%2B58K1sfYbUgYY-g77B=ig@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFDHx1%2BXv-HSzOk4NhZsLXhy49yJPot0caX-hyf-wmCJPENKiQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFDHx1LGQU4Xpte5H3iBo2xj5yFraf8q-uC_qNkNV%2B=%2B=TPwJw@mail.gmail.com> <CAGBxaXkpxKu6oDVz4wof2tOHXGZ=qONX5=KY0CXs24=6DstCVQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAFDHx1%2BXv-HSzOk4NhZsLXhy49yJPot0caX-hyf-wmCJPENKiQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 6:06 PM Patrick Mahan <plmahan@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 3:00 PM Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 5:51 PM Patrick Mahan <plmahan@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I have an older GeForce GTS 450. For years after every OS upgrade I have >>> unpacked the latest tar file from NVIDIA that contains the driver >>> supporting my graphics card, built and installed and keep on going. >>> >> >> My GeForce GTS 750 works fine with the latest x11/nvidia-driver and it >> compiles with no issue at all on 12.1. If your not used to the newer >> driver you might want to read up on how to load it (you want to load >> modeset not the the raw driver for example). >> >> >> I'm not referring to building the x11/nvidia-driver, but building the > driver you can get directly from Nvidia - > > NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-390.116.tar.gz > There is *ZERO* difference between the one you can download and the one in ports. -- Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org
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