Nvidia card, vt console and i915kms

[cmic]

FreeBSD 13.3 p4
CPU Xeon E5 2420
Graphic card Nvidia Quadro FX 570
Using mostly terminal. Using X11/Xwindows, scarcely.

-sc console works ok and I can have small fonts on the console
-But I want to use the vt console w/ small fonts.
I rummage thru forums and web sites but it is said that I should load i915kms and so on.

My monitor is connected to the VGA connector of the Nvidia graphic card
So must I install this i915kms module anyway? And go configure vt, etc.

I'm a bit at wit's end

 

[SirDice]

I rummage thru forums and web sites but it is said that I should load i915kms and so on.

The graphics/drm-kmod driver is for Intel's integrated graphics (and AMD/ATI but that's not relevant now). As far as I can tell your CPU doesn't have any. It can't enable something that isn't there.

My monitor is connected to the VGA connector of the Nvidia graphic card

If you're only on the terminal, no graphics driver is needed. At all. For X you would need x11/nvidia-driver-340, an old legacy NVidia driver version.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

cmic please, did you achieve what you wanted?

If you have trouble with x11/nvidia-driver-340, please see <https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/645708>.

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A number of topics are solved, but not marked as such. There seems to be no guideline. Please, can one be added? With a screenshot, or two, to make XenForo less ambiguous. https://forums.freebsd.org/forums/forum-rules-and-guidelines-required-reading.49/ Thanks

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