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lazyklimm
01-17-08, 04:28 AM
Will drivers for old cards(GF4 and older) be adapted to FreeBSD 7.x?

I've installed driver from port nvidia-driver-96xx, but it doesn't work
cat /dev | grep nv writes nothing...
and X does not starts - no device nvidiactl

zander
01-17-08, 02:03 PM
Please make sure the ACPI video driver doesn't attach to the GPU before the NVIDIA FreeBSD graphics driver has a chance to. FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE will be officially supported some time after its release.

crsd
01-17-08, 11:27 PM
Please make sure the ACPI video driver doesn't attach to the GPU before the NVIDIA FreeBSD graphics driver has a chance to.

Which means that you need to put nvidia_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf :) (sorry if that's obvious).

lazyklimm
01-23-08, 03:05 AM
Which means that you need to put nvidia_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf :) (sorry if that's obvious).
I tried, doesn't work

gillesr
03-03-08, 08:51 AM
FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE will be officially supported some time after its release.

Does this mean that the package "compat5x-i386-5.4.0.8_9" isn't needed after the release of the driver that supports the 7 release?