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, > | > | =09Just 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 b= uild > XFree86 4.2 from the ports. > > nvidia is, in general, bad news, and the best advice is to stay away fr= om > them if you can. I'd have to disagree, there's nothing faster right now, and pretty soon,=20 they'll have fully supported FreeBSD drivers, as well as the current linu= x=20 drivers... Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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