nVidia X Driver

[jewsofeast]

nVidia has released 256.x version for Unix and Linux. How do I get the latest and the greatest.

[kmoore134]

The 256.35 driver is included in 8.1 by default. You can try to load it
directly from nvidia on previous versions of PC-BSD if you like, but
that is untested.

[jewsofeast]

I am downloading 8.1, will install tomorrow. I wish to try on 8.0 install, do I need to build a .pbi of the driver or I can just make install. I am trying to install MPlayer pbi but the double click option doesnt seem to work.

[kmoore134]

You can just do the standard "make install" or load the FreeBSD port of
the new driver.

[nikjerry12]

The only thing that I want to say you that open source drivers for NVIDIA nForce hardware are included in the standard Linux kernel and leading Linux distributions. As I am using the same driver and downloading from the Internet and I really like its all of the services and facilities.