FreeBSD amd64 - Which nvidia driver for NVIDIA GeForce G210M?
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Wed Apr 7 21:04:36 UTC 2010
On Wednesday 07 April 2010 4:39:19 pm S Roberts wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 14:48:39 -0400
> John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> > On Sunday 04 April 2010 11:53:12 pm Dean Hamstead wrote:
> > > Despite Nvidia's promise to update the driver for amd64 when 8.0
> > > was released, this has yet to happen.
> > >
> > > You should abuse them politely in their forums.
> >
> > Huh? The beta amd64 driver has been available for months (and I've
> > been using it on my primary desktop in 7.x for months).
> >
> > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=148959
> >
>
> Glad to see that post from you..,
>
> Do you mind commenting whether or not the instructions there are good
> to go, or whether or not there were any "gotchas" or the like, please?
No, it just works fine. I think the x11/nvidia-driver port might even be
updated to use this driver on amd64 already.
--
John Baldwin
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