Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 09:17:42 -0500 From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Paul Scherf <PaulS@midstream.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree 4.3.0 and NVidia binary drivers Message-ID: <3E7B1F06.8050706@mitre.org> In-Reply-To: <E68F4182B5EFBE42A503F10FCB75FEDE026E91F5@ex1.midstream.com> References: <E68F4182B5EFBE42A503F10FCB75FEDE026E91F5@ex1.midstream.com>
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Paul Scherf wrote: > I updated to XFree 4.3 recently. I could not get the nv driver to work. The > server would crash, before it got all the way running. I tried the vesa > driver and the vga driver and it seems to run, although I imagine it isn't > taking advantage of hardware acceleration. > > I'm running 5.0-CURRENT (as of about a week ago). Maybe some models of > NVidia cards work and others don't. My display card is one of the older > cards supported by the nv driver. Thanks for the update, but I was more interested in the 'nvidia' driver instead of the 'nv' driver. Actually, you may want to try the 'nvidia' driver since the 'nv' one doesn't work for you. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Andresen [mailto:jandrese@mitre.org] > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 7:11 AM > To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org > Subject: XFree 4.3.0 and NVidia binary drivers > > > Has anybody tested the NVidia binary drivers with XFree 4.3 yet? I'm a > little reluctant to update, but I don't expect another driver out of > Nvidia for some time. > -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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