Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 12:43:17 +0530 From: "Gautham Ganapathy" <gauthamg123list@myrealbox.com> To: "Senandung Mendonan" <mendonan@absolute-p.ath.cx> Cc: FreeBSD - Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: nVidia driver problem w/ FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE + mplayer Message-ID: <035101c44483$41d13250$2701a8c0@itg.ti.com> References: <1085727213.d73c225cgauthamg123list@myrealbox.com>
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On Thu, 27 May 2004, Senandung Mendonan wrote: > On Thu, 27 May 2004, Gautham Ganapathy wrote: > > > I have installed 5.2.1-RELEASE on my system (Athlon XP/nForce 2 > > Ultra/GeForce 3). Unfortunately, I am not able to use nVidia's fbsd > > drivers. I saw a few posts that mentioned it would work under fbsd-5 > > although it was written for 4. Any idea on what might be the problem? > > Did you install the driver via ports ( /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver ), or > did you compile yourself? The ports version have some tweaks for you to > try. I've been using the ports version (default install, no tweaking) in > FreeBSD 5.2.1 on my Dell Latitude D800 (GeForce4 4200 Go), with no > problems so far: ran mplayer occasionally with the some mpeg, avi, etc. > > Got one minor gripe though: Can't get the Twinview feature working -- how > to get the display on both the laptop and a projector. (anybody got this > one working?) > Ok. I was building it from source. I'll try it from ports. Thanx. Not sure about Twinview, but I found the following http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-June/010814.html There seems to be a few options that have to be setup for enabling Twinview and configuring the second monitor. Hope it works Regards Gautham
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