Ports nvidia driver vs NVIDIA provided driver

[Aryeh Friedman]

On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 6:06 PM Patrick Mahan <plmahan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 3:00 PM Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
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>> On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 5:51 PM Patrick Mahan <plmahan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I have an older GeForce GTS 450.  For years after every OS upgrade I have
>>> unpacked the latest tar file from NVIDIA that contains the driver
>>> supporting my graphics card, built and installed and keep on going.
>>>
>>
>> My GeForce GTS 750 works fine with the latest x11/nvidia-driver and it
>> compiles with no issue at all on 12.1.   If your not used to the newer
>> driver you might want to read up on how to load it (you want to load
>> modeset not the the raw driver for example).
>>
>>
>> I'm not referring to building the x11/nvidia-driver, but building the
> driver you can get directly from Nvidia -
>

> NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-390.116.tar.gz
>

There is *ZERO* difference between the one you can download and the one in
ports.


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Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org