Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 13:36:51 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Osmany Guirola Cruz <osmany.guirola@cigb.edu.cu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nvidia XFree86 or X Message-ID: <20040709123651.GA32057@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200407090817.17569.osmany.guirola@cigb.edu.cu> References: <1089277280.236.12.camel@Desolation> <20040708232618.531e6fd7@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> <20040709064558.GA14282@lori.mine.nu> <200407090817.17569.osmany.guirola@cigb.edu.cu>
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On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 08:17:17AM -0400, Osmany Guirola Cruz wrote:
> I want to know if a change in the X server will affect my video drivers, i
> have a nvidia video card(GeForce2) i download the drivers from the nvidia
> site(I WANT 3D ACCELERATION!!!) for FreeBSD now my question is If y change
> from XFree86 to X what happens with the drivers?
You can run X.Org X server with the Nvidia driver:
% grep NVIDIA /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
(II) NVIDIA XFree86 Driver 1.0-4365 Wed May 28 09:23:41 PDT 2003
(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all NVIDIA GPUs
(--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found
....
Here's a patch you can apply to the x11/nvidia-driver Makefile so that
it will correctly identify various files that port replaces:
--- Makefile.XFree86 Fri Jul 9 13:27:30 2004
+++ Makefile Fri Jul 9 13:30:03 2004
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@
# XXX Should use ${PKG_INFO} XXX
#
-XSERVVERSION!= /usr/sbin/pkg_info -O x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server 2>/dev/null | ${GREP} Server- || true
-XLIBVERSION!= /usr/sbin/pkg_info -O x11/XFree86-4-libraries 2>/dev/null | ${GREP} libraries- || true
+XSERVVERSION!= /usr/sbin/pkg_info -O x11-servers/xorg-server 2>/dev/null | ${GREP} server- || true
+XLIBVERSION!= /usr/sbin/pkg_info -O x11/xorg-libraries 2>/dev/null | ${GREP} libraries- || true
PLIST_SUB= XSERVVERSION=${XSERVVERSION} XLIBVERSION=${XLIBVERSION} \
LINUXBASE=${LINUXBASE} NVVERSION=${NVVERSION}
Note that you don't need to apply this patch -- it just helps should
you want to deinstall the nvidia-driver port.
When switching from XFree86 to X.Org I also found that it paid to look
again at the AGP settings -- whether to use the standard FreeBSD
agp(4) driver, or the one that comes with the Nvidia driver.
Cheers,
Matthew
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