On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 10:01:46AM -0700, Arthur Barlow wrote: > > >> Does anyone know if this will ever be supported for FreeBSD 8.x? I > >> tried both the version in ports as well as the one directly from > >> NVIDIA. No joy. Does anyone know of other possibilities? > > > > You might try putting the port's name in question into the body of > > your post. Anyway, is there a specific reason that you cannot use the > > latest version in the posts system, "nvidia-driver-256.53_1"? I believe > > that nVidia released a newer version last year, 270.41.06, > > but it is apparently not available in the ports system. You might want > > to check with <da...@freebsd.org> regarding that. > > > > All of the FreeBSD nVidia drivers are listed on: > > <http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html>. > > > > -- > > Jerry ??? > > jerry+f...@seibercom.net > > 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.
Arthur, I have a similar card to you and I have used: x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau I don't think it does all the 3D stuff but otherwise it works well. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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