Where is the source?

reg at dwf.com reg at dwf.com
Mon Feb 16 00:46:45 UTC 2015


Thanks for the response, but the nvidia driver in freebsd does not
cover all nvidia cards.  For my card, a 6200LE they recommend the 304.125 
Legacy driver, which you have to build, and it needs kernel sources
(I will assume just the include files).  Im just not sure where
kernel sources are hiding in FreeBSD (I ran FreeBSD *years* ago, but
of late have run Redhat/Fedorda).


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> Hi,
> 
> PC-BSD is FreeBSD under the hood. Just different packages after install 
> as Kris Moore has said. So I would recommend following the handbook : 
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html .
> 
> Although I thought PC-BSD supplies an NVIDIA driver, I haven't used it 
> for a while but I'd look at the repository first.
> 
> On 2/15/2015 4:42 PM, reg at dwf.com wrote:
> > I am obviously missing something, but where is the source
> > for the PC-BSD kernel.  I dont see it on the DVD release.
> >
> > I need it to build a NVIDIA driver for my video card.
> >
> > Mabe I just dont understand the wording of the descriptions
> > of the various files, but I dont see it.
> 




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