FreeBSD amd64 - Which nvidia driver for NVIDIA GeForce G210M?

[S Roberts]

Hi John,

On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 17:03:41 -0400
John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday 07 April 2010 4:39:19 pm S Roberts wrote:
> > Hi John,
> >    
> > On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 14:48:39 -0400
> > John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sunday 04 April 2010 11:53:12 pm Dean Hamstead wrote:
> > > > Despite Nvidia's promise to update the driver for amd64 when 8.0
> > > > was released, this has yet to happen.
> > > > 
> > > > You should abuse them politely in their forums.
> > > 
> > > Huh?  The beta amd64 driver has been available for months (and
> > > I've been using it on my primary desktop in 7.x for months).
> > > 
> > > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=148959
> > > 
> > 
> > Glad to see that post from you..,
> > 
> > Do you mind commenting whether or not the instructions there are
> > good to go, or whether or not there were any "gotchas" or the like,
> > please?
> 
> No, it just works fine.  I think the x11/nvidia-driver port might
> even be updated to use this driver on amd64 already.
> 

I just checked
(http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/) and it
does indeed appear to already be included.

Excellent!

Thanks again, John.

Regards,

S Roberts