On Saturday 06 June 2009, Jerry wrote: > I did notice a driver on the nVidia page for FreeBSD x86, version # > 185.18.14, released June 5, 2009; however, the version is the ports > is: 180.44, which has actually been superseded four times since its > release by nVidia. > > Would the x86 driver work in 64 bit FreeBSD or do I have to install > the x86 version instead?
No, in the absence of a 64 bit driver from Nvidia you'd need to use the nv driver included in the xorg-drivers port. I had quite a struggle to get the nv driver to give me a 1280x1024 display. I'm running the i386 version of FreeBSD on a Foxconn 6150M2MA motherboard and couldn't get the GeForce 6150 to work with the 180.44 driver but it works fine with the x11/nvidia-driver-96 port which I use in preference to the nv driver. The lack of a 64bit Nvidia driver was one of the reasons I installed the i386 version of FreeBSD on this 64bit platform. -- Mike Clarke _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"