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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org>
Subject: Re: which X driver for NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M?
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On Sun, 3 Feb 2013, Gary Aitken wrote:

> I suspect it is from building the nvidia driver,
> as those Makefiles use
>  X11BASE=   /usr/X11R6

Last I heard from the ports guys, that is obsolete.

> On 02/03/13 10:42, Warren Block wrote:
>
>> Yes, or rather, there is no /usr/X11R6 at all, on either of the two 9-stable systems I checked.
>
> Hmmm, there is on my 9.0 with an nvidia driver installed.
> Are you running an nvidia driver?
> If not, that would hint that the X11R6 dir/link is a result of the nvidia driver
> install process

No Nvidia cards here at all.