On 17/10/2017, Justin Sherrill <[email protected]> wrote: > No, I mean the proprietary binary-only driver that NVIDIA supplies. > > http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html > > Nouveau is specifically open source. > > https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ > > I don't think nouveau works on DragonFly... but I haven't tried it. > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Carsten Mattner > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 10/16/17, Justin Sherrill <[email protected]> wrote: >>> DragonFly 5 does include the vga_switcheroo module which works for >>> some Mac models that have multiple video cards, but I don't know if >>> that applies to you here. >>> >>> Note that NVIDIA keeps their drivers private, so there's no >>> accelerated video under NVIDIA on DragonFly. The default vesa driver >>> should perform very well, however. >> >> Do you mean Nouveau? >
I have been using Ubuntu Linux since about 12.04, because it has had nouveau, which allowed this computer to run an external monitor via an nVidia GeForce thing. It had taken me about 18 months to two years, to find a non-MS OS that would run the hardware on this computer. Only DragonflyBSD and Ubuntu Linux had drivers for the CPU architecture (Intel Haskell, from memory, and only Ubuntu Linux had drivers for the nVidia Optimus system or architecture. I was hoping that DragonflyBSD would be able to run on this hardware. I note that the web page at the URL above, includes " The nouveau project aims to build high-quality, free/libre software drivers for nVidia cards. “Nouveau” [nuvo] is the French word for “new”. Nouveau is composed of a Linux kernel KMS driver (nouveau), Gallium3D drivers in Mesa, and the Xorg DDX (xf86-video-nouveau). The kernel components have also been ported to NetBSD. " I do not know whether that means that NetBSD will run nouveau. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 ....................................................
