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Date:      Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:37:13 -0800
From:      Leela <leela@leela.ws>
To:        hemepar <hemepar@pr.gov.br>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: NVidia Riva TNT2 64 ?
Message-ID:  <40D91709.3020502@leela.ws>
In-Reply-To: <000801c458a2$68dee1c0$131e1d0a@sesa.parana.gov.br>
References:  <000801c458a2$68dee1c0$131e1d0a@sesa.parana.gov.br>
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hemepar wrote:
> I'm trying to install on a Intel
> motherboard, P4 1.6 GHz, 128 Mb RAMBUS, 8139 Realtek netwok and a
> 32 Mb NVidia Riva TNT2 64 video card.

As Brian noted, a TNT2 works great with the "nv" driver, although you
may also have to adjust your "Monitor" and "Screen" sections of your
XFree86 config file to work with your monitor.

A reference I found very useful in understanding XFree86
configurations was "The Complete FreeBSD" by Greg Lehey, Chapter 28.
Also the handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html

Here are the relevant portions of my XFree86 config file for my system
with the TNT2 card (note: your BusID is probably different):

> more /etc/X11/XF86Config

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

[snip]

Section "Monitor"

        #DisplaySize      370   270     # mm
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "DEL"
        ModelName    "DELL P991"
        Option      "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"

        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "SWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "HWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoAccel"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShowCache"                 # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShadowFB"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "UseFBDev"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Rotate"                    # [<str>]
        #Option     "VideoKey"                  # <i>
        #Option     "FlatPanel"                 # [<bool>]
        #Option     "FPDither"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "CrtcNumber"                # <i>
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "nv"
        VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
        BoardName   "NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro]"
        BusID       "PCI:1:9:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth    24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     24
                Modes     "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

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