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Accelerated nVidia Drivers for FreeBSD

Posted by michael on from the bring-out-all-the-freebsd-games dept.

zero0w writes "nVidia has released the official OpenGL accelerated driver set for FreeBSD 4.7 STABLE. Check out the nVidia Driver page for more detail. According to the page, this release should be considered as initial beta. So don't count on it to build a day-to-day production system, yet."

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  1. Re:well it is about time! by dinivin · · Score: 4, Informative

    You were saying?

    Dinivin

  2. Re:So what? by dinivin · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't mean to troll, but are there any _existing_ applications / games that would benefit from this?

    Sure... Every 3D linux game: Rune, heretic2, q3a, ut, ut2003, descent, hg2, sof, terminus, parsec... Should I continue?

    Dinivin

  3. Re:Can I take one 2 Go? by tgreiner · · Score: 5, Informative

    These drivers work perfectly with GeForce2 Go cards. I'm writing this on a Dell Inspiron 8200 with GeForce2 Go.

    From 'glxinfo':

    OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
    OpenGL renderer string: GeForce2 MX/AGP/SSE2
    OpenGL version string: 1.3.1 NVIDIA 32.03

    and:

    $ uname -a
    FreeBSD tybalt 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #39: Fri Nov 8 14:42:57 CET 2002 thorsten@tybalt:/usr/src/sys/compile/TYBALT i386

  4. Correction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative


    the readme says:

    if your XF86Config has a "Device" section with a 'Driver "nv"' line, you will need to update it to 'Driver "nv"'

    this should say:

    if your XF86Config has a "Device" section with a 'Driver "nv"' line, you will need to update it to 'Driver "nvidia"'

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