Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 09:13:09 +0400 From: Stepan Rakhimov <stepan_r@mail.ru> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nVidia driver works on -current? Message-ID: <42CE0B65.3020309@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <1120761153.21990.25.camel@xenon.stonehenge.sk> References: <20050706182031.68327.qmail@web50308.mail.yahoo.com> <1120675336.18416.9.camel@xenon.stonehenge.sk> <42CD6204.1060501@mail.ru> <1120761153.21990.25.camel@xenon.stonehenge.sk>
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I use nvAGP driver as they recommend. As far as I remember I've tried freebsd agp without success also. Michal Varga wrote: > Yes, sorry, I forgot to mention that I implicitly mean the x86 > architecture, if not stated otherwise. As far as I know Nvidia currently > does not provide binary drivers for AMD64 on freeBSD, though if you are > running in x86 mode, the driver should work, I know at least one guy who > is running it that way. > > What AGP driver are you using and when is this error message triggered? > > m. > > On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 21:10 +0400, Stepan Rakhimov wrote: > >>it doesn't work for me. the message is "agp cannot be started for this >>combination of AMD CPU and kernel" >>i'm running latest i386 current on athlon64 >> >>Michal Varga wrote: >> >>>On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 11:20 -0700, alan bryan wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Can anyone tell me if the nVidia display driver >>>>(ports/x11/nvidia-driver) works on current? The >>>>nVidia README says it's not "supported" but I'm >>>>wondering if it still works. >>>> >>> >>>Yes, they work perfectly. In fact I had them "hacked" (simply removed >>>the check for FreeBSD 5 from sources, l33t) quite a while before someone >>>put the same thing into the ports. Personally tested on GeForce 2 MX400 >>>and 6600GT, other guy is running them on 6800 and I think I remember >>>some 5700 too. You can safely play Doom 3 with them. >>> >>>m. >>>
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