Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 22:14:33 -0400 From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org> To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> Cc: tuc@ttsg.com, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell 8200 - NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go - XF86 Message-ID: <200204252214.33906.culverk@yumyumyum.org> In-Reply-To: <20020426020722.36BAABB29@i8k.babbleon.org> References: <200204260200.WAA00709@heimdall.ttsg.com> <20020426020722.36BAABB29@i8k.babbleon.org>
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On Thursday 25 April 2002 10:07 pm, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: > On Thursday 25 April 2002 10:00 pm, Tuc wrote: > | Hi, > | > | Just bought a Dell 8200 with : > | > | NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go video controller with 64 MB of DDR RAM > > That's unfortunate; it would have been better to get an ATI chip (which > were available upon request for the 7500, 8000, and 8100, at least, so > probably for the 8200 though I don't know for sure). > > But I think you can make it work if you cvsup to the latest ports and build > XFree86 4.2 from the ports. > > nvidia is, in general, bad news, and the best advice is to stay away from > them if you can. I'd have to disagree, there's nothing faster right now, and pretty soon, they'll have fully supported FreeBSD drivers, as well as the current linux drivers... Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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