Other Desktop environments installation script

tennea9 said:
:-D ...
sorry.
fixed.

I added NVIDIA drivers 340 and 304.
But I will have to test them
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I'll need to search for some suitably ancient hardware, before I can test nvidia-driver-304.
Whenever I use nvidia-driver-340 (eg GT210 cards) I need to include the Option "IgnoreABI" "1" as included in a previous suggestion.
Will be interesting to see whether you experience same result.
 
bgroper said:
I'll need to search for some suitably ancient hardware, before I can test nvidia-driver-304.
Whenever I use nvidia-driver-340 (eg GT210 cards) I need to include the Option "IgnoreABI" "1" as included in a previous suggestion.
Will be interesting to see whether you experience same result.
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I was wondering why this option.. I'm also gonna try during this week-end.
 
I've just added a second script : "mirror_repositories.sh" which automates the local mirroring and maintenance of the 'latest' and 'quarterly' repositories, ensuring a complete local copy of all packages for difficult times (such as build issues).
It uses the same framework as freebsd-desktop.sh (you simply comment or uncomment the functions at the end)
A "freebsd-desktop_local.sh" has also been added, based on a local mirroring (mirror_repositories.sh).
 
Version 340 is in maintenance mode. If it is no longer ABI compatible with current servers, shouldn't NVIDIA be... "maintaining" it?
It should only require a recompile on their end to match the current Xorg expected binary layout.
 
kpedersen said:
Version 340 is in maintenance mode. If it is no longer ABI compatible with current servers, shouldn't NVIDIA be... "maintaining" it?
It should only require a recompile on their end to match the current Xorg expected binary layout.
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NVIDIA no longer recompiles older drivers (340/304) to follow changes in Xorg's ABI.
Using the IgnoreABI option seems essential.
 
Looking to trying this script out. Any chance to add dual GPU support? I understand that's tricky to do with FreeBSD. Still on the basic installation, on the latest release. If I try as it is currently, I may go with the Nvidia option, though I'd like to also use the iGPU, a UHD 630.
 
DHOC_TAZH said:
Looking to trying this script out. Any chance to add dual GPU support? I understand that's tricky to do with FreeBSD. Still on the basic installation, on the latest release. If I try as it is currently, I may go with the Nvidia option, though I'd like to also use the iGPU, a UHD 630.
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Well, for now, you just need to rerun the script and switch GPUs when it detects an existing GPU configuration.
It's not perfect yet (regarding rerunning), the script isn't really designed to be rerun at this point, but I'll see if I can improve that.
 
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