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Old 31st October 2009
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Originally Posted by ionflux View Post
Just tried to change "nv" to "vesa": the X server starts, but is unusable.
VESA (VBE actually) is just an unaccelerated framebuffer, it is very slow and not optimal for much of anything.

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Originally Posted by ionflux View Post
Let me try to compile the driver from ports ...
FreeBSD has an outdated version of the 'nv' driver, you'll have to manually update it to the latest version.. i.e: using a text editor or compile it outside of the ports tree.
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