Nvidia Drivers

[Radu MOLNAR]

i've been using the nvidia drivers on riva tnt2 and geforce2 mx400 and
every tiem i installed the drivers on the nvidia site. worked perfectly
every time and except for the kernel options no other tweaking was
required

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Radu Molnar
Babes-Bolyai Comunication Center
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On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Remko Lodder wrote:

> Mateusz Rajca wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have Nvidia Ge Force 4 MX 440. How should I install drivers for Nvidia Ge Force on
> > FreeBSD 5.1 because FreeBSD won't work untill I install them?
>
> Hello,
>
> I have the same card, you can find drivers for it in the
> /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver directory.
>
> Note that i had to copy the nvidia.ko file from that directory to
> /boot/kernel myself. Perhaps i did something wrong, but when copied
> manually and added to /boot/loader.conf
>
> (nvidia_load="YES") it works like a sunshine.
>
> Oh and could you do a little favor for me in return, wrap your lines at
> 80 chars or something. Thanks
>
> Cheers
>
>
> p.s little sidenote, FreeBSD works fine without the drivers, even VESA
> mode under X works. But when working dualscreen and for getting it all
> out of your card, it's better to  use the driver.
>
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Zdzislaws
> >
>
>
> --
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Remko Lodder
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