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From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz>
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Quoting Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org>:

> Dimitry Andric wrote:
>
>> On 2004-05-05 at 10:26:32 Johan Pettersson wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> 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
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> The problem is that NVidia hasn't updated its binary-only FreeBSD
>> driver since July 1st, 2003.  Any cards released after this date will
>> not work properly, or at all, with this driver.  So please go bug
>> NVidia. :)
>
> I have a GeForce FX 5900 that works with the latest Nvidia binary only
> module.  The probe complains that it doens't know the card, but it still
> manages to make it work anyway.
>
> nvidia0: <Unknown> mem 0xd0000000-0xd7ffffff,0xdb000000-0xdbffffff irq
> 11 at device 0.0 on pci3
>
> According to XFree's log, it even manages to use the AGP and bumps the
> speed up to 8x.
>
> (II) NVIDIA(0): AGP 8X successfully initialized
>
> X doesn't know exactly what kind of chip it is, but seems able to
> autodetect all of the interesting features anyway.
>
I just tried it with my machine, and it hung the computer... I have an 
idea why
it might have though, I think I forgot to set up the AGP stuff 
correctly in the
XF86Config.

Ken