Solved Nvidia card not working

[lorien]

Hello all. I need to know how to get my card working. I did a lot, but what I did wrong.

 

[lorien]

I solved it thanks to this site. https://headthirst.com/freebsd-nvidia.html
All walked like magical.

 

[SirDice]

Chapter 5. The X Window System

This chapter describes how to install and configure Xorg on FreeBSD, which provides the open source X Window System used to provide a graphical environment

docs.freebsd.org

 

[Geezer]

lorien You can mark this thread as "Solved" now.

 

[grahamperrin]

… like magical.

I'm curious, does the computer successfullly wake from sleep (suspend/resume)?

 

[lorien]

I'm curious, does the computer successfullly wake from sleep (suspend/resume)?

Yes.

 

[jbo@]

I'm curious, does the computer successfullly wake from sleep (suspend/resume)?

Is that surprising? I have two desktops/workstations with Nvidia cards using the official nvidia drivers and both of them have zero problems with suspend/resume. Didn't turn any knobs either.

 

[grahamperrin]

<https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/539345> puts my experience in the context of an open bug report.

… official nvidia drivers …

From NVIDIA, or ported?

 

[jbo@]

From NVIDIA, or ported?

I'm using x11/nvidia-driver. As I undstood, those are the official Nvidia drivers.

 

[grahamperrin]

I'm using x11/nvidia-driver. As I undstood, those are the official Nvidia drivers.

Via <https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/>: <https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/189811/en-us/>, and so on.

<https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/tree/main/x11/nvidia-driver/> goes beyond what's provided by NVIDIA.