I have old Latitude E6510 with an oldish nvidia card. When I tried to install True OS, it wasn't happy with my video card - and there was a notice on the True OS download page to the effect that legacy NVIDIA card were not supported.
I decided to try and install freeBSD directly, since I saw that there was a nvidia driver that supported my card: nvidia-driver-340.
It has been 20 or more years since I worked in a UNIX kernel, and even then it was a file system for DG/UX - I have never been all that knowledgeable about UNIX user space, and user space has changed a lot in those decades.
To be honest, I also wasn't really interested in a new hobby - I had this old laptop sitting around, and it seemed a waste to not be able to at least use it for browsing and email.
So I decided to see how hard it was to to a working system.
The answer is in: it was a piece of cake. With the help on these forums, I was able to get get the nvidia-driver-340 enabled, install firefox, and get my wireless HP OfficeJet 8100 working.
I also added some music engraving software to play with - lilypond and frescobaldi. Eventullay I will add gnucash.
I can't tell you how delighted I am over the ease of this process.
Very cool.
Thanks to all who helped.
Mike
I decided to try and install freeBSD directly, since I saw that there was a nvidia driver that supported my card: nvidia-driver-340.
It has been 20 or more years since I worked in a UNIX kernel, and even then it was a file system for DG/UX - I have never been all that knowledgeable about UNIX user space, and user space has changed a lot in those decades.
To be honest, I also wasn't really interested in a new hobby - I had this old laptop sitting around, and it seemed a waste to not be able to at least use it for browsing and email.
So I decided to see how hard it was to to a working system.
The answer is in: it was a piece of cake. With the help on these forums, I was able to get get the nvidia-driver-340 enabled, install firefox, and get my wireless HP OfficeJet 8100 working.
I also added some music engraving software to play with - lilypond and frescobaldi. Eventullay I will add gnucash.
I can't tell you how delighted I am over the ease of this process.
Very cool.
Thanks to all who helped.
Mike