Best hardware for a replacement desktop?

[Aryeh Friedman]

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 5:19 PM RW via freebsd-questions <
freebsd-questions at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 13:18:48 -0400
> Aryeh Friedman wrote:
>
> > (the documentation
> > currently has a reported bug that leads to a misconfiguration [you
> > need to load nvidia.ko as well as nvidia-modeset.ko in loader.conf
> > and not post device probing
>
>
> My understanding is that you only need to load nvidia-modeset.ko in
> loader.conf, and nvidia.ko will get loaded as a side effect. Are you
> saying that's wrong?
>

Yes:

nvidia-modeset_load="YES"

Will *NOT* load it correctly (it will not find the card in the device
probe) *BUT*:

nvidia_load="YES"
nvidia-modeset_load="YES"

works fine (about twice as fast performance also).   See:

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/frustration-about-update-of-nvidia-driver-port.57477/
and associate PR https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212279

For reference I am using: x11/nvidia-driver-390.87_3 (current version from
ports/head svn repo)


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Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org