From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 10 13:58:58 2004 Return-Path: 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 E16F916A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:58:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.freeode.co.uk (freeode.co.uk [213.162.123.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04F8C43D48 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:58:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sub01@freeode.co.uk) Received: from lexx (lexx.freeode.co.uk [10.253.253.2]) by mail.freeode.co.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iAADwts0004171; Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:58:55 GMT (envelope-from sub01@freeode.co.uk) From: John Murphy To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:58:55 +0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: cargnini@matrix.com.br Subject: Re: FBSD 5.3 + Nvidia drivers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: sub01@freeode.co.uk List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:58:59 -0000 Cargnini wrote: >Someone knows if the driver is working on 5.3 release ? Yes. I installed the nvidia driver from ports (/usr/ports/X11/nvidia-driver). >I must apply all the patchs like in 5.2.1, in 5.3 ?? No. If you use the port it even makes an entry in /boot/loader.conf for you. Change the 'Driver "nv"' line to 'Driver "nvidia"' and add 'Load "glx"' in the Modules section of xorg.conf. You may need to compile and install a custom kernel without 'device agp'. Although it seems to work for me with GENERIC. I didn't use GENERIC with anything more demanding than screen savers though (GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8). The screen needs to run at a depth of 16 or 24 bit. (the default is 8). -- HTH, John.