Ports nvidia driver vs NVIDIA provided driver

[Patrick Mahan]

On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 3:12 PM Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 6:06 PM Patrick Mahan <plmahan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 3:00 PM Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 5:51 PM Patrick Mahan <plmahan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have an older GeForce GTS 450.  For years after every OS upgrade I
>>>> have
>>>> unpacked the latest tar file from NVIDIA that contains the driver
>>>> supporting my graphics card, built and installed and keep on going.
>>>>
>>>
>>> My GeForce GTS 750 works fine with the latest x11/nvidia-driver and it
>>> compiles with no issue at all on 12.1.   If your not used to the newer
>>> driver you might want to read up on how to load it (you want to load
>>> modeset not the the raw driver for example).
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not referring to building the x11/nvidia-driver, but building the
>> driver you can get directly from Nvidia -
>>
>
>> NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-390.116.tar.gz
>>
>
> There is *ZERO* difference between the one you can download and the one in
> ports.
>
>
Hmm, hadn't realized those had been added.  I guess I should have done some
more reading, I had assume (incorrectly) these were the nv driver which
didn't support the full Nvidia functionality.

Cool one less worry.

Thanks,

Patrick


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