From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 16 17:34:48 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE83216A420 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:34:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A975913C4CC for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:34:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: (qmail 4224 invoked from network); 16 Jan 2008 17:34:47 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 16 Jan 2008 17:34:47 -0000 Message-ID: <478E3F70.8010106@chuckr.org> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:31:28 -0500 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071107) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Nielsen References: <478BC29D.8030806@chuckr.org> <20080114152623.lnpqtvs0g880kogo@newwebmail.jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <20080114152623.lnpqtvs0g880kogo@newwebmail.jnielsen.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers Subject: Re: nvidia working? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:34:48 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Nielsen wrote: > Quoting Chuck Robey : >> I was wondering ... I have (I think) nvidia working on my box, or at >> least, I am calling out the nvidia driver in the xorg.conf, but I was >> wondering if there is any program that only works with the nvidia >> hardware, some way I can absolutely prove that I have the real nvidia >> card working here? Before I had it working, I was using the vesa >> driver, and most things look exactly the same, and if I could fine some >> program that shows the 8600GTS's abilities, I would sure like that. > > btw -questions would probably have been a better forum for this question > than -hackers. > > The most straightforward approach is probably to review the output of > your Xorg log, e.g. /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Output from the nvidia driver > will be prefixed by NVIDIA (rather than VESA or NV if you were using a > different driver). > > There is also x11/nvidia-settings port. It's a control panel of sorts > that will show you nvidia-specific information. In theory it lets you > control some settings as well but personally I've never found it useful > for that. YMMV. Thanks! Looks like I really do finally have that card/driver working right, too. Sure 'preciate the ideas. > > JN > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHjj9wz62J6PPcoOkRAjmBAJ405DDYxex5XhZIXm7X+7OVJghXwwCfWoBp pJ1g1hqT6Vp7AEifghRGx+c= =1XCQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----