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Date:      Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:52:26 -0500
From:      Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Xorg and nVidia GeForce 8200 (MCP78S) - a better driver than vesa?
Message-ID:  <1231001546.2011.1.camel@wombat.2hip.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090103135304.239f2502.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 13:53 +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:26:17 +0300
> Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> > You could try adding PCI id of your 8200 gfx card to src/nv_driver.c
> > in xf86-video-nv sources.
>=20
> Ok, I'll search and see if I can find anything relevant.
> I wish therer was another driver I could try, but even the noveau[2]
> driver doesn't support the GeForce 8200 yet.
>=20
> It is a bit frustrating that all these "releases" (of code, docs and
> whatnot) from nVidia hasn't made things better for endusers (yet). Oh
> well, that is just the way it is.

Nvidia has not released code or docs.  Only, Intel, AMD/ATI, and VIA
have done so.

robert.

> > And, according to the author of nv driver, it doesn't support Xv
> > extension on all G8x GPUs. [1]
> >=20
> > [1] http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D11586#c2
>=20
> Hmm, I wonder if it is supported in the GeForce 8200 then?
>=20
> References:
> 2) http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/

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