[Bug 291208] Handbook - Xorg Nvidia settings should use "nvidia"

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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2025 12:33:14 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=291208

            Bug ID: 291208
           Summary: Handbook - Xorg Nvidia settings should use "nvidia"
           Product: Documentation
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
               URL: https://cgit.freebsd.org/doc/tree/documentation/conten
                    t/en/books/handbook/x11/_index.adoc#n499
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: Books & Articles
          Assignee: doc@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: erichanskrs@gmail.com

Commit
https://cgit.freebsd.org/doc/commit/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/x11/_index.adoc?id=654c02af03202616767f7c38d69298aab841c851


This change seems unintended, it should be reversed:
Section "Device"
        Identifier "Card0"
-       Driver     "nvidia-modeset"
+       Driver     "nvidia"
EndSection

I don't have active Nvidia graphics atm, but given the Nvidia 
documentation and the list of files contained in the package 
/x11/nvidia-driver, there is no 'nvidia-modeset_drv.so':
[1-0] # pkg info -ql nvidia-driver | grep '_drv\.so'
/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so

This file indicates using "nvidia" in a Device section.

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