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FreeBSD's Ports collection contains the official NVIDIA binary drivers for hardware OpenGL rendering in X, using the GLX extensions.The x11/nvidia-driver points to NVIDIA's latest stable driver set.
If you are using a legacy card check NVIDIA's site to see which driver set supports your card and browse the Ports tree for the suitable driver version and install that instead. Bellow are the steps needed to install NVIDIA drivers on i386 FreeBSD: Code:
% su # portsnap fetch update # cd /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-drivers # make config # make install clean # echo 'nvidia_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf # echo 'linux_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf # echo 'hint.agp.0.disabled="1"' >> /boot/device.hints Now let's proceed by editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf to have it use the NVIDIA driver and add some options to increase performance. Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the driver value from "nv" to "nvidia": Code:
Driver "nvidia" Code:
Option "RenderAccel" "True" Option "NoRenderExtension" "False" Option "NoFlip" "False" Option "UseEdid" "True" Option "NvAGP" "1" Code:
# echo "hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA=1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf # echo "hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW=1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf Code:
# reboot Code:
x11/nvidia-settings x11/nvidia-xconfig http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x11.html /usr/local/share/doc/NVDIA_GLX-1.0/
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Thanks for the inputCarpetsmoker.
Yeah those are default settings. I just figured they were important enough to have on xorg.conf as remainder not to change them.
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