From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 15 12:54:59 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 CDE1716A41C for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:54:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adam.stroud@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C73B43D48 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:54:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adam.stroud@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id j2so350675nzf for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 05:54:58 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ezkxxpWjZZWxwhVLHAdBVLReJywmoFJUXVVwL23jcUXUP4YU6cla3uQ7yvMKprDCTy9VcCBhwWeN+usJna8yY7XZH9FSPWjZ8Coz4BXk/ZKs+KBJlTy9NHtHAnnIID/NK2jxVdnVjbXRvxzdotyoJA31St1xDoeOZvgd+dUK5kc= Received: by 10.36.119.13 with SMTP id r13mr1224444nzc; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 05:54:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.43.2 with HTTP; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 05:54:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 08:54:58 -0400 From: Adam Stroud To: Ian Moore In-Reply-To: <200507152216.34951.no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <200507151501.58712.no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au> <200507152216.34951.no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nvidia Driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Adam Stroud List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:54:59 -0000 Thanks for the enlightnement. I have already rebuilt the driver with the changes that I need. My system will now longer boot, but that is another issue. Thank you for your help. A On 7/15/05, Ian Moore wrote: > On Friday 15 July 2005 20:59, Adam Stroud wrote: > > > > On 7/15/05, Ian Moore wrote: > > > On Friday 15 July 2005 12:37, Adam Stroud wrote: > > > > All: > > > > > > > > I am having a problem getting my nvidia video card to work since I > > > > portupgraded to the latest nvidia driver in the port. I had > > > > everything working find using many of the old verions. Then I > > > > upgraded to the latest version and now when I attempt tp startx, I > > > > get: > > > > >=20 > > > > > > What card do you have - nvidia have dropped support for older chipset= s - > > > take a look at /usr/ports/UPDATING for details. > > > That might be the cause of your problem. >=20 > > I am using the GeForce2 GTS >=20 > There's your problem then, it's not supported by the new drivers accordin= g to > the list at http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_18897.html >=20 > Look at /usr/ports/UPDATING for instructions on how to keep the older dri= ver > on your system. >=20 > Cheers, > -- > Ian > gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc >=20 >=20 >