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Subject: Re: NVidia
From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
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On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 23:33, rob frohwein wrote:
> Hi ,
>=20
> May I ask a question here, else just ignore.
>=20
> I am trying to use the new nvidia driver in XF86 as presented in:
> http://www.marcuscom.com/g2g-xfree86/article.html.
>=20
> My system:
> Dell inspiron notebook 8100 with nvidia gforce 2.
> FreeBSD 4.4=20
> Currently I use X in vesa mode at 1200*1024 =20
> (which looks supprisingly good on a 1600*1200 LCD)
>=20
> The article says:
> goto ports/XFree86-4-Server
> make deinstall=20
>=20
> But this wont work if X has been installed as a package
> from a normal cd installation.
>=20
> So I did :
> pkg_delete   XFree86-Server-4.1.????  (dont know precise version)
>=20
> And I did the installation from ports=20
> x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server
> which installs server version 4.2.???

Note in the article that you need XFree86 4.2.  This will not work with
4.1.  My advice is for you to delete XFree86 4.1, and install 4.2 from
ports.

>=20
> But then a lot of executables seem to be missing, at least:
> xinit startx mkfontsdir ...
>=20
> The pkg_delete seems to remove too much , or the server install
> fails to install tools.
>=20
> I have now installed FreeBSD4.5, is there a procedure to=20
> install this new driver even if I have installed the X stuff as=20
> a package from a simple cd installation ?

If you have XFree86 4.2.0 installed from packages, simply uninstall the
XFree86-Servers package, and rebuild the port after applying the new nv
source files.  Then you should be set.

Joe

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>=20
> greetings=20
> Rob Frohwein
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