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Nvidia Releases Updated Drivers for FreeBSD

Posted by michael on from the bsd-has-graphics? dept.

brsmith4 writes "Nvidia has released their latest drivers for the FreeBSD platform. This release addresses a number of issues and has been anticipated for well over a year. You will need at least 4.9-STABLE or any of the 5.x-CURRENT releases to install them. Some of the new features include added support for the latest NVIDIA GPUs including GeForce 6800 Series and improved interaction with -CURRENT's new threading libraries, not to mention the fact that my Dell laptop no longer shuts off the LCD when the driver gets loaded. The driver also provides tighter integration with the linux execution environment, making it very easy to run your favorite linux game titles. You can pick up the driver here. Pay no attention to the date, August 13th, 2003. It was a type-o."

7 of 86 comments (clear)

  1. Re:It's typo, not type-o by brsmith4 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fucking sorry... sheesh. Get a life.

  2. Type-o? by floamy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hahahahahaha WTF!!!

    Doesn't typo stand for typographical error? WTF was this guy thinking?

    Eye em smar-t lyk brsmith4!i!i!

  3. Re:Type-o? by floamy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    PS: Sorry. That was rude.

  4. Re:Type-o? by brsmith4 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ah-well, I gess im jes dum den. cant even speel typo. how da hell did i evin git da rest of da gatdam post cerrect? hehe

  5. Re:Type-o? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Because you are a spastic moron, that's how.

  6. Re:It no typo -- Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Good News Everyone!
    Turns out that *BSD is stronger than ever!
    According to an Inernetnews article, Netcraft has confirmed that *BSD has "dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
    There has been a steady increase in *BSD developers over the past decade.
    There are currently 307 FreeBSD developers as of the 2004 core team election.
    You can read more about FreeBSD here

    If you would like to try out a BSD, you can download: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or DragonflyBSD
    Enjoy!

  7. Re:Some gotchas with these new Nvidia drivers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Good News Everyone!
    Mike Smith now works for Apple, whose OS is based on BSD.
    Check it out: www.lemis.com/~grog/msmr.html
    and at: daemonnews, under "BSD at Apple"
    He didn't like the direction that v5 was taking so he quit and starting writing BSD code for Apple.