nVidia driver works on -current?

From: alan bryan (alanbryan1234_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/06/05

  • Next message: Michael L. Hostbaek: "Re: (problem found) grantpt broken on -CURRENT" 
    Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 11:20:31 -0700 (PDT)
To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org

    Can anyone tell me if the nVidia display driver
    (ports/x11/nvidia-driver) works on current? The
    nVidia README says it's not "supported" but I'm
    wondering if it still works. Since 5.x and 6.x are
    fairly close I'm thinking it might still work and
    wondering if anyone has it working - if so I'll try it
    out myself.

    Thanks,
    Alan

    (Here's the relevant part of the README)
    __________________________________________________________________________

    (sec-01) SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
    __________________________________________________________________________

    The offical minimum software requirements for the
    NVIDIA FreeBSD Driver
    Set are:

     - FreeBSD 5-STABLE (FreeBSD 5.3 or later)

       Please review sec-05: CHOOSING THE AGP GART DRIVER
    for AGP related
       information.

     - kernel source tree in /usr/src/sys (package 'ssys'
    installed)

     - Xorg 6.7.0 or XFree86 4.2 and greater

    FreeBSD -STABLE versions older than FreeBSD 5.3 and
    FreeBSD 6.x -CURRENT
    development snapshots are not supported.

    __________________________________________________________________________

                    
    ____________________________________________________
    Sell on Yahoo! Auctions – no fees. Bid on great items.
    http://auctions.yahoo.com/
    _______________________________________________
    freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list
    http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current
    To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"

  • Next message: Michael L. Hostbaek: "Re: (problem found) grantpt broken on -CURRENT"

    Relevant Pages

    • NVIDIA FreeBSD kernel feature requests
      ... NVIDIA has been looking at ways to improve its graphics driver for the ... FreeBSD i386 platform, as well as investigating the possibility of adding ... and user mappings of I/O memory, ...
      (freebsd-hackers)
    • Re: Program Files/Microsoft Works/Wkdetect.exe
      ... Disable the NVIDIA Display Driver Service... ... Nview.dll = NVIDIA nView Desktop and Window Manager ... Bob Deb hunted and pecked: ...
      (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
    • Re: Program Files/Microsoft Works/Wkdetect.exe
      ... Thought I was losing my marbles as I couldn't locate most of the entries you ... The wizard indicated - "nView Desktop Manager has been installed on your ... what specifically because I have disabled all of the Nvidia crap. ... Disable the NVIDIA Display Driver Service... ...
      (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
    • Re: Program Files/Microsoft Works/Wkdetect.exe
      ... Bob Deb hunted and pecked: ... The wizard indicated - "nView Desktop Manager has been installed on your ... know what specifically because I have disabled all of the Nvidia crap. ... Disable the NVIDIA Display Driver Service... ...
      (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
    • Re: amd64 NVIDIA support in FreeBSD 7
      ... I am aware that currently 3D accelerated support for Nvidia cards is ... ultimately provide support to the amd64 platform. ... is it realistic to think they will be MFC'ed to FreeBSD 7.x or will ... A problem with that feature list is that the specification is not ...
      (freebsd-current)