Nvidia GeForce 9500M GS

[Mark Carlson]

On 4/11/08, soralx at cydem.org <soralx at cydem.org> wrote:
>
>  > >  I'm planning to buy new notebook. So someone please tell me is it
>  > > GeForce 9500M GS supported? Can i use this graphic card with 3d
>  > > acceleration? Thank you.
>  > >
>  > >  Best regards Erca Gan
>  >
>  > This page has the latest Nvidia driver info for FreeBSD:
>  > http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
>  >
>  > Click on the latest release for FreeBSD, then on the left side of the
>  > page click "Supported Products List."  That should take you to here
>  > (for the 169.12 release)
>  > http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_18897.html
>  >
>  > The 9xxx chips do not seem to be supported yet.  8800 is the max as
>  > far as I can see.  They may be supported soon, but maybe not.  If the
>  > laptop is widescreen and you are going to be running FreeBSD on it,
>  > don't get it until the driver supports the graphics card.  Unless you
>  > can test the laptop first with a FreeBSD live-cd and check for sure,
>  > you will probably not be able to run the monitor with a widescreen
>  > resolution.
>
>
> OTOH, if you check the "archive", you'll find this:
>
>  http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_171.06.html
>
>  On that page:
>  "Release Highlights: Added support for GeForce 9600 GT."
>
>  I am testing this driver right now with 7600GT, seems like still working.
>
>  I looked at the README file in the driver's archive, there are no 9xxx
>  in the supported list.
>
>  > -Mark C.
>
>  [SorAlx]  ridin' VS1400
>

Ah, that sounds like the nvidia I've grown to (dis)trust.  Going
through all the trouble of adding support for brand new cards, and not
adding one simple line to a small documentation file... Bah!

-Mark C.