nVidia driver works on -current?

Stepan Rakhimov stepan_r at mail.ru
Fri Jul 8 05:13:23 GMT 2005


I use nvAGP driver as they recommend. As far as I remember I've tried 
freebsd agp without success also.

Michal Varga wrote:
> Yes, sorry, I forgot to mention that I implicitly mean the x86
> architecture, if not stated otherwise. As far as I know Nvidia currently
> does not provide binary drivers for AMD64 on freeBSD, though if you are
> running in x86 mode, the driver should work, I know at least one guy who
> is running it that way.
> 
> What AGP driver are you using and when is this error message triggered?
> 
> m.
> 
> On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 21:10 +0400, Stepan Rakhimov wrote: 
> 
>>it doesn't work for me. the message is "agp cannot be started for this 
>>combination of AMD CPU and kernel"
>>i'm running latest i386 current on athlon64
>>
>>Michal Varga wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 11:20 -0700, alan bryan wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Yes, they work perfectly. In fact I had them "hacked" (simply removed
>>>the check for FreeBSD 5 from sources, l33t) quite a while before someone
>>>put the same thing into the ports. Personally tested on GeForce 2 MX400
>>>and 6600GT, other guy is running them on 6800 and I think I remember
>>>some 5700 too. You can safely play Doom 3 with them.
>>>
>>>m.
>>>


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