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From: Chris Dempsey <chrisdempsey@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: GeForce 2 
To: Pete Young <peteyng@home.com>
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Pete,

What type of GeForce2 chipset are you using?  The MX
chipset or the GTS chipset?  If using the GTS, you
didn't get a kernel driver not found error?

Chris Dempsey

--- Pete Young <peteyng@home.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 22:20:24 -0500, Ian Fricker
> wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >I recently installed freebsd. I have a Creative
> Labs 3D Annihilator 2 with Nvidia's GeForce 2
> chipset. It isn't supported, and I was wondering if
> you knew if there were bsd drivers for my card and
> where I can get them. I've looked several places on
> the web and haven't been able to find any, but maybe
> I'm overlooking something. If you need any more
> info, let me know. Thanks.
> >Ian
> >
>  
> I managed to get the geforce 2 under Freebsd 4.1 and
> XFree86 4.1.
> The drivers have been written but the last XFree86
> release does not
> contain them.
> 
> I used the FreeBSD port system.  Here are the steps
> that worked.
> 
> 	cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4
> 	make patch
> 
> I then copied these files from the XFree86.org
> anoncvs repository to
> the same
> directories under /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4/work/
> 
> 	xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/xf86PciInfo.h
> 
>
xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/nv/nv_driver.c
> 
>
xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/nv/nv_include.h
> 
> xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/nv/nv_local.h
> 	xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/nv/nv_type.h
> 
> xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/nv/riva_tbl.h
> 	xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/nv/nv_xaa.c
> 
> Edit nv_include.h and remove the line   #include
> "vbe.h"  .  Finish
> with
> 
> 	cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4
> 	make install
> 	XFree86 -configure
> 
> And it worked!


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