Driver for nVidia Geforce 6150LE
I was just given a Gateway GT 52250 with an AMD Anthon 64 X2 Processor 3800+ with a nVidia Geforce 6150LE card. Assuming I install the 64 bit version of FreeBSD on this machine, what nVidea driver should I install? From what I understood, nVidia was not producing 64 bit drivers for FreeBSD due to a problem with the FreeBSD kernel. There are none listed on the nVidea site either. 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x86, version # 185.18.14, released June 5, 2009; however, the version is the ports is: 180.44, which has actually been superseded four times since its release by nVidia.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? -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Diplomacy is about surviving until the next century. Politics is about surviving until Friday afternoon. Sir Humphrey Appleby signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Driver for nVidia Geforce 6150LE
nVidea driver should I install? From what I understood, nVidia was not producing 64 bit drivers for FreeBSD due to a problem with the FreeBSD kernel. There are none listed on the nVidea site either. problem with FreeBSD kernel? what FreeBSD/amd64 kernel can't that i386 one can? ___ 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
Re: Driver for nVidia Geforce 6150LE
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x86, version # 185.18.14, released June 5, 2009; however, the version is the ports is: 180.44, which has actually been superseded four times since its release by nVidia.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
Re: Driver for nVidia Geforce 6150LE
On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:09:15 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: nVidea driver should I install? From what I understood, nVidia was not producing 64 bit drivers for FreeBSD due to a problem with the FreeBSD kernel. There are none listed on the nVidea site either. problem with FreeBSD kernel? what FreeBSD/amd64 kernel can't that i386 one can? Your response is of no use since it does not apply to the question. If you need further information regarding incompatibilities between nVidia 64 bit drivers and 64 bit FreeBSD, Google for it. There was even a lengthy discussion on this topic on this very forum awhile ago. It would be nice if this incompatibility issue could be resolved by FreeBSD-8 since it apparently is not going to be resolved in the present 7.x branch. Personally, with more and more PCs being sold with 64 bit architecture, and nVidea being a major player in the video card market, FreeBSD's inability to support nVidia 64 bit drivers is seriously detrimental to the overall usefullness of the OS and certainly will not help it capture a larger share of the market. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Bare feet magnetize sharp metal objects so they point upward from the floor -- especially in the dark. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Driver for nVidia Geforce 6150LE
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. OK, exactly how did you get it to work? 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. That port version is several versions old. Perhaps the maintainer will update to the latest version. According to the change-log, it corrects quite a few problems. The lack of a 64bit Nvidia driver was one of the reasons I installed the i386 version of FreeBSD on this 64bit platform. Unfortunately, I will probably have to do that also. Since it is not going to be used for anything critical, it probably does not matter. It would be nice if FreeBSD gets around to supporting 64 bit drivers like this so that a user could take advantage of a 64 bit system. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Reality must take precedence over public relations, for Mother Nature cannot be fooled. R. P. Feynman signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Driver for nVidia Geforce 6150LE
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
Re: Driver for nVidia Geforce 6150LE
On Saturday 06 June 2009, Jerry wrote: On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:00:48 +0100 Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: 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. OK, exactly how did you get it to work? My initial attempt with Xorg -configure and the nv driver resulted in me getting just an 800x600 display. I was able to fix this by adding 'Modes 1280x1024' to the display subsection of the screen section but this resulted in the entire display being shifted about 50 pixels to the right. I couldn't correct this with the auto-adjust button on the monitor but after fiddling around with xvidtune I was able to get a modeline for something which looked acceptable but I wasn't too happy with it because the monitor was no longer able to show full details about resolution and frequency in it's on screen status display. The nvidia driver wasn't without it's problems either but I got there in the end. Initially I tried the nvidia-driver port but all I got was a black screen with a single row of white pixels across the top of the screen. After a bit of trial and error I found that I could get a working display by using portdowngrade to revert to version 169.12. Unfortunately after the upgrade of xorg in January this old version of nvidia-driver failed to work and gave me the black screen with white dots and I got error messages about being unable to load nvidia_drv.so. No solution to this was forthcoming but I found that the nvidia-driver-96 port would work. Although this is a much older driver the port is still maintained so I should be less likely to hit compatibility problems in the way I did by using a downgraded version of the newer driver. That port version is several versions old. Perhaps the maintainer will update to the latest version. According to the change-log, it corrects quite a few problems. I'm hoping that the problems fixed in the latest version relate to issues with the newer and/or more powerful graphics chips. So far I've not had any problems with this driver. The lack of a 64bit Nvidia driver was one of the reasons I installed the i386 version of FreeBSD on this 64bit platform. Unfortunately, I will probably have to do that also. Since it is not going to be used for anything critical, it probably does not matter. It would be nice if FreeBSD gets around to supporting 64 bit drivers like this so that a user could take advantage of a 64 bit system. Well I certainly don't seem to be missing out on anything by using i386 but I only have 2GB memory anyway, it would be a different matter if I had 4GB or more. -- 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
