Where is the source?

[Brandon Schneider]

Right. Follow the handbook :) The link will help you sync the sources to 
your machine and the rest of the handbook has a section on compiling the 
kernel sources. It is very easy to do in FreeBSD land.

On 2/15/2015 6:46 PM, reg at dwf.com wrote:
> 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.
>