On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:00:48 +0100 Mike Clarke <jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk> wrote:
> 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 is: 180.44, which has actually been superseded four times since its 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. You wont get effects in Gnome or KDE4 with nv either. In my experience it also uses a lot more cpu just to basic things like web browsing, and movies. _______________________________________________ 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"
