Legacy drivers on FreeBSD 7.x?

lazyklimm · 01-17-08, 02:28 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

Code:

cat /dev | grep nv

writes nothing...
and X does not starts - no device nvidiactl

**zander** · 01-17-08, 12:03 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, 09:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zander

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, 01:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by crsd

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, 06:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zander

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?

01-17-08, 02:28 AM	#1
lazyklimm Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 3	Legacy drivers on FreeBSD 7.x? 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 Code: cat /dev \| grep nv writes nothing... and X does not starts - no device nvidiactl

01-17-08, 12:03 PM	#2
zander NVIDIA Corporation Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 3,740	Re: Legacy drivers on FreeBSD 7.x? 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.

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