From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 4 8:18:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84F9337B401 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 08:18:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from testmail.wolves.k12.mo.us (testmail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 074C143E3B for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 08:18:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: by testmail.wolves.k12.mo.us (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 84FB01AAE9; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 10:18:15 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by testmail.wolves.k12.mo.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A13B1A947; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 10:18:15 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 10:18:15 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon To: Eric Anderson Cc: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." , Subject: Re: "FreeBSD as a Desktop" heh, heh.... In-Reply-To: <3DC67B54.4040709@centtech.com> Message-ID: <20021104101519.I57495-100000@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Eric Anderson wrote: > Chris Dillon wrote: > > The newest NVidia cards work fine with FreeBSD's XFree86 port. I > > created a patchset for XFree86 that added support for the newest cards > > to the nv driver which was added to the XFree86 port on August 5. > > You have to either build XFree86 from the ports, or use > > FreeBSD.org-built binaries made after that date. The > > XFree86.org-built binaries will not have any improvements incorporated > > in them after the day that particular version of XFree86 was released. > > I'm running 4.7-RELEASE, shouldn't that be new enough? I would think so. I see the patches in the port, I hope they actually get put into the binary packages. Do you have a particular card that isn't working? If so, paste the relevant portion of pciconf -l -v output. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon(at)wolves.k12.mo.us FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet - Available for IA32 (Intel x86) and Alpha architectures - IA64, PowerPC, UltraSPARC, ARM, and S/390 under development - http://www.freebsd.org No trees were harmed in the composition of this message, although some electrons were mildly inconvenienced. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message