FreeBSD amd64 - Which nvidia driver for NVIDIA GeForce G210M?

S Roberts

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Apr 4, 2010, 9:58:42 PM4/4/10

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Hello,
Is anyone using this graphics card on FreeBSD-8 amd64?

If so, can you advise me which nvidia driver it is that I need to use,
please?

Thanks.

Regards,

S Roberts

Dean Hamstead

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Apr 4, 2010, 11:53:12 PM4/4/10

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Despite Nvidia's promise to update the driver for amd64 when 8.0 was
released, this has yet to happen.

You should abuse them politely in their forums.

Dean

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John Baldwin

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Apr 7, 2010, 2:48:39 PM4/7/10

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On Sunday 04 April 2010 11:53:12 pm Dean Hamstead wrote:
> Despite Nvidia's promise to update the driver for amd64 when 8.0 was
> released, this has yet to happen.
>
> You should abuse them politely in their forums.

Huh? The beta amd64 driver has been available for months (and I've been using
it on my primary desktop in 7.x for months).

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=148959

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S Roberts

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Apr 7, 2010, 4:39:19 PM4/7/10

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Hi John,

Glad to see that post from you..,

Do you mind commenting whether or not the instructions there are good
to go, or whether or not there were any "gotchas" or the like, please?

Thanks.

Regards,

S Roberts

John Baldwin

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Apr 7, 2010, 5:03:41 PM4/7/10

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No, it just works fine. I think the x11/nvidia-driver port might even be
updated to use this driver on amd64 already.

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S Roberts

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Apr 7, 2010, 5:52:53 PM4/7/10

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Hi John,

On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 17:03:41 -0400
John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday 07 April 2010 4:39:19 pm S Roberts wrote:
> > Hi John,
> >
> > On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 14:48:39 -0400
> > John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Sunday 04 April 2010 11:53:12 pm Dean Hamstead wrote:
> > > > Despite Nvidia's promise to update the driver for amd64 when 8.0
> > > > was released, this has yet to happen.
> > > >
> > > > You should abuse them politely in their forums.
> > >
> > > Huh? The beta amd64 driver has been available for months (and
> > > I've been using it on my primary desktop in 7.x for months).
> > >
> > > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=148959
> > >
> >
> > Glad to see that post from you..,
> >
> > Do you mind commenting whether or not the instructions there are
> > good to go, or whether or not there were any "gotchas" or the like,
> > please?
>
> No, it just works fine. I think the x11/nvidia-driver port might
> even be updated to use this driver on amd64 already.
>

I just checked
(http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/) and it
does indeed appear to already be included.

Excellent!

Thanks again, John.

Regards,

S Roberts

Dean Hamstead

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Apr 9, 2010, 8:15:17 PM4/9/10

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>
> I just checked
> (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/) and it
> does indeed appear to already be included.

glad to be wrong!

Dean