Re: NVIDIA: nouveau (was: How to determine the correct graphics card driver)
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Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2022 20:34:58 UTC
Just a bit of history..., FreeBSD made an effort, fairly substantial, to adopt Nouveau about a decade ago. I got to sort of work, but it steadily got harder and harder to make code work on FreeBSD and the Linux people working on it made it very clear that, if we wanted it to work on FreeBSD, they were not interested. (We're not GPL). Code was included that was almost impossible to make work with the FreeBSD kernel, with effort going into providing the kernel hooks NVidea required, the effort was abandoned in favor of the Nvidia written drivers.and I'm unaware of any effort to get it to work. Today, with the lkpi, it might not be too hard to get nouveau to work, but I doubt you will find much interest. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683