From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 17 20:00:46 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDF5A16A4CE for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 20:00:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56CC643D80 for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 20:00:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from juu.borg@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so2129997wra for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 13:00:40 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:reply-to:to:cc:subject:date:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-mailer:in-reply-to:x-mimeole:thread-index:from:message-id; b=lP9gUcKnwsrb9YBDKbNTVj/Pv8nuTqMtTs4cw8KwVVPPFKU+objsh3ugg1tv25YKWBwRBBswHvwYULxgupC1Z6dh17Mf+QvAtPrao3ZljG2GWoaPTrswro3vE8Rd9nEUITUuzIWm8cWfiA+hGFLYwPrISz7t4HT67N7EItRGhYw= Received: by 10.54.50.46 with SMTP id x46mr2855194wrx; Tue, 17 May 2005 13:00:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apollo ([217.15.99.34]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 64sm978267wra.2005.05.17.13.00.39; Tue, 17 May 2005 13:00:40 -0700 (PDT) To: "'Mike Jeays'" , "'Rod Person'" Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 22:00:36 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 In-Reply-To: <1115755191.86936.19.camel@chaucer> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 Thread-Index: AcVVmtgreb774zt7Sx2vDlo3g7f/WwFgCFzA From: Joseph Borg Message-ID: <428a4d68.3c0c6800.3f65.ffffc303@mx.gmail.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: NVIDIA Driver on 5.4 RC3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: joeborg@ieee.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 20:00:46 -0000 -----Original Message----- From: Mike Jeays [mailto:Mike.Jeays@rogers.com] Sent: 10 May 2005 22:00 To: Rod Person Cc: joeborg@ieee.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVIDIA Driver on 5.4 RC3 On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 12:37, Rod Person wrote: > On Tue, 10 May 2005 12:24:30 -0400, Joseph Borg wrote: > > > Hi, > > I've got an NVIDIA TNT2 and I'm trying to install NVIDIA's driver on the > > AMD > > 64 Release of 5.4 RC3. The driver I'm trying to install is: > > NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-7174.tar.gz. > > > > When I try to install it, make stops with an error saying that vm86.h was > > not found. Has anyone come across this problem before? > > I have the same type of card and use the NVIDIA driver with no problem. > I'm not sure, but does the driver support AMD 64 cpu?? > > > Alternatively, does anyone know of another driver I can use with my card > > that will support 1024x768 at true colour depth? > > The Xorg driver 'nv' - I believe it is - should support 1024x768, it just > doesn't do the 3D acceleration of the Nvidia driver. Even the VESA driver works at this resolution with the GEFORCE 440 card - I am not saying the performance is spectacular, but it works fine for me. Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "vesa" VendorName "nVidia Corporation" BoardName "NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440]" ChipSet "vesa" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 15 Modes "800x600" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection EndSection Thanks Rod and Mike, The NV driver works just fine in the Xorg conf. Had missed it the first time round. Joe