From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 28 00:06:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D0CA16A4CE for ; Fri, 28 May 2004 00:06:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.ti.com (news.ti.com [192.94.94.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF92143D49 for ; Fri, 28 May 2004 00:06:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gauthamg123list@myrealbox.com) Received: from dbdp30.itg.ti.com ([157.87.95.216]) by dragon.ti.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i4S74mWI029613; Fri, 28 May 2004 02:04:49 -0500 (CDT) Received: from gautham (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dbdp30.itg.ti.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id i4S74iDA015676; Fri, 28 May 2004 12:34:46 +0530 (IST) Message-ID: <035101c44483$41d13250$2701a8c0@itg.ti.com> From: "Gautham Ganapathy" To: "Senandung Mendonan" References: <1085727213.d73c225cgauthamg123list@myrealbox.com> Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 12:43:17 +0530 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 cc: FreeBSD - Questions Subject: Re: nVidia driver problem w/ FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE + mplayer X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 07:06:35 -0000 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