"Older drivers are available as package:x11/nvidia-driver-[]" in documentation/content/en/books/faq/_index.adoc, besides lacking a final ".", doesn't link to anything useful. Perhaps a list of legacy driver port names? Or something like "*" and no link to make it more obvious user intervention is required? On my trusty 12.2 laptop: % pkg search nvidia-driver nvidia-driver-460.67 NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL rendering nvidia-driver-304-304.137_8 NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL rendering nvidia-driver-340-340.108_2 NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL rendering nvidia-driver-390-390.141 NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL rendering
nvidia-driver- – as a search phrase works well with FreshPorts, for example: <https://www.freshports.org/search.php?stype=name&method=prefix&query=nvidia-driver-&num=10&orderby=port&orderbyupdown=asc&search=Search&format=html&branch=head> and plain text <https://www.freshports.org/search.php?stype=name&method=prefix&query=nvidia-driver-&num=10&orderby=port&orderbyupdown=asc&search=Search&format=plaintext&branch=head>.
(In reply to Graham Perrin from comment #1) That WFM.
A commit in branch main references this bug: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=f66fca12e527e161095ff5eb56e2c5f5779209c4 commit f66fca12e527e161095ff5eb56e2c5f5779209c4 Author: Sergio Carlavilla Delgado <carlavilla@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2021-12-04 22:57:04 +0000 Commit: Sergio Carlavilla Delgado <carlavilla@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2021-12-04 22:57:04 +0000 Fix package references for legacy nvidia drivers in FAQ 11.16 PR: 260196 Submitted by: PauAmma <pauamma@gundo.com> documentation/content/en/books/faq/_index.adoc | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
I added a list with all the legacy drivers. Btw, the graphics section should be improved in the FAQ and also in the Handbook. Thanks for this :)
Thanks, however the three paths are not found in cgit. Re: the current edition of <https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/faq/#x-3d-acceleration> and (for example) its link out to <https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/x11/nvidia-driver-390/pkg-descr> dvl, please: in the absence of a description under <https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/x11/nvidia-driver-390/>, how do you gain the description that's represented in FreshPorts? <https://www.freshports.org/x11/nvidia-driver-390/#description> (I wondered whether the three legacy NVIDIA drivers are a special case, but I can't find anything directly relevant in GitHub or FreshPorts News.) TIA
/me glances at MASTERDIR= ${.CURDIR}/../nvidia-driver <https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/x11/nvidia-driver-390/Makefile?id=836cc2b180cc77ead7b8a9bc3622a63b34facbd2#n8>
Re-opened at submitter's request.
(In reply to Graham Perrin from comment #5) The description for a port is obtained via make -v DESCR [pkg01 dan ~/ports/head/x11/nvidia-driver-390] % make -V DESCR /usr/home/dan/ports/head/x11/nvidia-driver-390/../nvidia-driver/pkg-descr [pkg01 dan ~/ports/head/x11/nvidia-driver-390] % cat /usr/home/dan/ports/head/x11/nvidia-driver-390/../nvidia-driver/pkg-descr These are the official NVidia binary drivers for hardware OpenGL rendering in X11, using the GLX extensions. WWW: https://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
See also: bug 273313