Under <https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/faq/#x-3d-acceleration>: > … nVidia provides detailed information on which card is supported by which > driver on their web site: http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html. … From bug 260183 comment 0: > … _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/>. Instead, maybe: <https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/drivers/unix/> > Unix Drivers | NVIDIA Not anchorable, but there are sections for: * FreeBSD x86 * FreeBSD x64 The latter includes a link to the latest production branch, where (through clicking the version) a SUPPORTED PRODUCTS tab makes things reasonably clear for this branch. Legacy ====== <https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/524748> reminds me that <https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/legacy-gpu/> – > What's a legacy driver? | NVIDIA – was somewhat ambiguous, possibly contradictory, when read alongside other NVIDIA resources. Still, this NVIDIA page is probably a useful point of reference. Edge cases ========== <https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-December/000582.html> for example, Andriy Gapon wrote: > Apparently not all GT 730 cards are made equal. … Without attempting to detail any case, maybe the FAQ (or better the Handbook) should simply: * acknowledge that edge cases exist "NVIDIA's pages are not entirely authoritiative" or words to that effect * steer to <https://www.freebsd.org/support/> in case of trouble.
(In reply to Graham Perrin from comment #0) > … a SUPPORTED PRODUCTS tab makes things reasonably clear … It should be pointed out that the adjacent DOWNLOAD button is not appropriate if, as is likely, the reader intends to use the FreeBSD-maintained port. ---- Side note (not for the FAQ): <https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/545002> mentions NVIDIA's installer making inappropriate changes to /boot/loader.conf
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 …
Since the FAQ is gonna be rewritten, we can close this