[Bug 269626] FreeBSD Handbook: NVIDIA: corrections

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=269626

--- Comment #6 from Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to Graham Perrin from comment #1)
> can someone clarify re: the situations in which nvidia-modeset is
> _preferred_?
If it's shipped with your version of the driver, you should use it.  It
specifies the MODULE_DEPENDS on nvidia.ko so the latter would be loaded
automatically.

The `nvidia-modeset.ko' was introduced in driver version 358.09 to program the
display engine of the GPU (changing resolutions, transformation settings,
display device hot-plugging, etc.) and works in conjunction with the
`nvidia.ko' kernel module. At the time of the writing, only the latest version
of the driver shipped this module, most users would still go the good old
kld_list="nvidia" way. We simply forgot to flip the switch as the time had
passed. I'll update the port's pkg-message to make it less confusing
(technically it correctly explains the situation, but suggests
kld_list="nvidia" as the default, while it should be kld_list="nvidia-modeset"
these days).

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