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From: Johan Pettersson <manlix@demonized.net>
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Subject: Re: nVidia FX Support?
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On Wed, 5 May 2004 10:42:25 +0930
"Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> wrote:

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> On Wed, 5 May 2004 08:54, Nilson wrote:
> > Is there any work on when there will be support for nVidia's FX line
> > of cards in FreeBSD?
> 
> You can use the binary only driver if you have an IA-32 system (ie in
>  /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver). I have..
> nvidia0: <GeForce FX Go5200> mem
> 0xd0000000-0xdfffffff,0xfc000000-0xfcffffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on
> pci1 nvidia0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> 
> And it works very well.
> 

That driver hasn't worked for me since 5.1-RELEASE. I have tried various
ways to get it to work. FreeBSD locks up when starting X.