Why is there no graphics driver for my nvidia card in FreeBSD 8.0 - RELEASE i386?

[Lasse]

When will there be a driver for my Geforce 9600GT in FreeBSD 8.0 - RELEASE i386 and FreeBSD 8.0 - RELEASE amd64?

Thanks in advance/
Lasse.

[vivek]

32bit drivers can be downloaded from the official site
http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_190.42.html

64bit driver work is in progress.

[aragon]

Apart from amd64 support, what's wrong with x11/nvidia-driver?

[Learning]

190.42 & 195.22, the same problem
#error This driver does not support FreeBSD 8.x/-CURRENT!

[buwei]

%uname -a
FreeBSD bsd.lhq 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 15:02:08 UTC 2009 root@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64

1
cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-f9
make install clean

2
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/FreeBSD-x86_64/195.22/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-195.22.tar.gz
tar zxvf NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-195.22.tar.gz
cd NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-195.22
make install
3
ok

[Lasse]

I get the following error message: ===> linux_base-f9-9_1,1 linuxulator is not (kld)loaded.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-f9.

What's wrong?

Thank you/
Lasse.

[DutchDaemon]

You need

linux_enable="YES"

in /etc/rc.conf to load Linux compatibility. In the meantime, you can try kldload linux, but I'm not sure you can do that on a running system.

BTW, you can also build the NVIDIA driver without the Linux compatibility option. I've found no need for it, but I'm only running the Flash plugin under linux, nothing else.