Best hardware for a replacement desktop?

[Aryeh Friedman]

See new PR https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239412

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 5:31 PM Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 5:19 PM RW via freebsd-questions <
> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 13:18:48 -0400
>> Aryeh Friedman wrote:
>>
>> > (the documentation
>> > currently has a reported bug that leads to a misconfiguration [you
>> > need to load nvidia.ko as well as nvidia-modeset.ko in loader.conf
>> > and not post device probing
>>
>>
>> My understanding is that you only need to load nvidia-modeset.ko in
>> loader.conf, and nvidia.ko will get loaded as a side effect. Are you
>> saying that's wrong?
>>
>
> Yes:
>
> nvidia-modeset_load="YES"
>
> Will *NOT* load it correctly (it will not find the card in the device
> probe) *BUT*:
>
> nvidia_load="YES"
> nvidia-modeset_load="YES"
>
> works fine (about twice as fast performance also).   See:
>
>
> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/frustration-about-update-of-nvidia-driver-port.57477/
> and associate PR https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212279
>
> For reference I am using: x11/nvidia-driver-390.87_3 (current version from
> ports/head svn repo)
>
>
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> Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org
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