Nvidia FreeBSD display driver - 319.12 Beta (Optimus)

[Pavel Arefiev]

Hi.

AFAIK, it relies upon some kernel interfaces, that have been realised only in 
Linux kernel yet. These kernel interfaces are PRIME and DMA-BUF. May be I'm 
wrong at this point. The driver is worth giving it a try imho and still should 
work but without Optimus yet maybe.

Regards,
Vans.

В письме от 23 апреля 2013 14:23:54 пользователь Tom Evans написал:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Unga <unga888 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hi all
> > 
> > It says following Nvidia display driver supports Optimus:
> > 
> > http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd-x86-319.12-driver.html
> > 
> > Has anybody tried it on FreeBSD? Does it really support Optimus? How is it
> > usability, are there any frequent crashes?
> > 
> > Unga
> 
> The FreeBSD relnotes for that driver are missing a section that the
> equivalent Linux version has on how to setup Optimus:
> 
> http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/319.12/README/randr14.html
> 
> From that page, it seems like you will need some very up to date Xorg
> components, as well as a co-operating secondary graphics driver. I
> don't know if you can get all those things yet on FreeBSD, nor if even
> having them would allow it all to work, given the missing
> documentation in the driver.
> 
> Perhaps worth a try if you have some Optimus kit.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Tom
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