On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 15:13:02 +0700, Robert Elz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 20:37:54 -0400 > From: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > | I have NetBSD 6.1 installed on an ASUS laptop. The video card is an > | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M, and is currently unsupported with xorg's nv > | driver. > >I have much the same situation, except with a 660M (according to the >sticker anyway...) It is identified (under linux) by the nouveau driver >as an Nve7 chipset (the log file there doesn't announce the model number) > > | I would like to get this working with the vesa driver, but have > | come to a dead end with X -configure. > >I'd much prefer to get the nouveau driver working (again) for NetBSD. >There is a driver in pkgsrc/wip but it doesn't build with current >pkgsrc modular xorg (nb: the "again" is because I'm assuming that it >once worked, and should not be taken as implying that I have ever >successfully used it, I haven't). > >For now, I'm running linux (ubuntu 13.04) that uses the nouveau driver >The server is x.org 1.13.3 - the nouveau driver doesn't announce a version, >but gives a date of March 27 (2013). > >For NetBSD, I'm using virtualbox (whatever is the current version day to day, >4.2.14 right now) which is mostly OK - it has a few issues with mouse >crontrol when linux decides to idle after a timeout, and with performance >when it has been running for a while (days...) - but can access native netbsd >partitions on the disc, which I was never able to make work when I was using >Windows as the host - that I abandoned when the disc died and I replaced it. > >kre > >
The 304.88 BSD Nvidia driver supports the 560M. I would recommend running BSD on your machine over Linux. Running NetBSD within qemu is totally a piece of cake, and you may not experience the issues you have with VirtualBox on Ubuntu.I have not noticed the issues mentioned running NetBSD on VirtualBox with a FreeBSD host. -- Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA +1.5108307875
