Driver for nVidia Geforce 6150LE

2009-06-06 Thread Jerry
I was just given a Gateway GT 52250 with an AMD Anthon 64 X2 Processor 3800+ with a nVidia Geforce 6150LE card. Assuming I install the 64 bit version of FreeBSD on this machine, what nVidea driver should I install? From what I understood, nVidia was not producing 64 bit drivers for FreeBSD due to

Re: Driver for nVidia Geforce 6150LE

2009-06-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
nVidea driver should I install? From what I understood, nVidia was not producing 64 bit drivers for FreeBSD due to a problem with the FreeBSD kernel. There are none listed on the nVidea site either. problem with FreeBSD kernel? what FreeBSD/amd64 kernel can't that i386 one can?

Re: Driver for nVidia Geforce 6150LE

2009-06-06 Thread Mike Clarke
On Saturday 06 June 2009, Jerry wrote: I did notice a driver on the nVidia page for FreeBSD x86, version # 185.18.14, released June 5, 2009; however, the version is the ports is: 180.44, which has actually been superseded four times since its release by nVidia. Would the x86 driver work in

Re: Driver for nVidia Geforce 6150LE

2009-06-06 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:09:15 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: nVidea driver should I install? From what I understood, nVidia was not producing 64 bit drivers for FreeBSD due to a problem with the FreeBSD kernel. There are none listed on the nVidea site either.

Re: Driver for nVidia Geforce 6150LE

2009-06-06 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:00:48 +0100 Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: On Saturday 06 June 2009, Jerry wrote: I did notice a driver on the nVidia page for FreeBSD x86, version # 185.18.14, released June 5, 2009; however, the version is the ports is: 180.44, which has actually been

Re: Driver for nVidia Geforce 6150LE

2009-06-06 Thread RW
On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:00:48 +0100 Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: On Saturday 06 June 2009, Jerry wrote: I did notice a driver on the nVidia page for FreeBSD x86, version # 185.18.14, released June 5, 2009; however, the version is the ports is: 180.44, which has actually

Re: Driver for nVidia Geforce 6150LE

2009-06-06 Thread Mike Clarke
On Saturday 06 June 2009, Jerry wrote: On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:00:48 +0100 Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: No, in the absence of a 64 bit driver from Nvidia you'd need to use the nv driver included in the xorg-drivers port. I had quite a struggle to get the nv driver to give