Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 360, Issue 10

2011-05-01 Thread Arthur Barlow
 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.
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Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 360, Issue 10

2011-05-01 Thread RW
On Sun, 1 May 2011 10:01:46 -0700
Arthur Barlow arthurbar...@gmail.com wrote:


 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.

nvidia-driver-173 doesn't work on amd64. If that's your issue then you
may be better-off with the i386 version of FreeBSD.

FreeBSD 8.x added the kernel features require by nvidia before they
would implement a 64-bit version, but nvidia-driver-173 was already a
legacy driver at that point.
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