Bug 260183 - FreeBSD Handbook: NVIDIA: reference to a non-existent part of en/books/faq/
Summary: FreeBSD Handbook: NVIDIA: reference to a non-existent part of en/books/faq/
Status: Closed Overcome By Events
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Books & Articles (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Many People
Assignee: Sergio Carlavilla Delgado
URL: https://cgit.freebsd.org/doc/tree/doc...
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Depends on: 260199
Blocks: handbook-2022
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Reported: 2021-12-03 02:36 UTC by Graham Perrin
Modified: 2023-02-17 19:13 UTC (History)
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Description Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-12-03 02:36:57 UTC 
<https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/x11/#x-compiz-video-card> 

> … To determine which nVidia driver is needed see the FAQ question 
> on the subject. …

– refers to an anchor that does not exist: 

<https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/faq/#idp59950544>

NVIDIA _is_ mentioned under 
<https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/faq/#x-3d-acceleration>, however for "which card is supported by which driver" there's reference to <http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html>, which (a separate bug) is _not_ the best page to tell which driver is appropriate because the result is legacy-only <https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/legacy-gpu/>.
Comment 1 Pau Amma 2022-05-17 22:04:34 UTC 
(In reply to Graham Perrin from comment #0)
x-3d-acceleration is the right anchor ID to use in the handbook instead of idp59950544.
Comment 2 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-12-30 11:59:33 UTC 
Triage, batch edit (just one): 

* for twenty-eight FreeBSD Handbook-related reports that had gained a 
  personal assignee, prior group/list assignee doc@ was 
  missing from the CC list.

Gentle hint: <https://wiki.freebsd.org/Bugzilla/> ▶ do, don't …