From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 18 7:42: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mukappa.home.com (c576194-a.saltlk1.ut.home.com [24.20.97.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEDAE37B400 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 07:41:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from mukappa.home.com (ryjgxw@localhost.home.com [127.0.0.1]) by mukappa.home.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f0IFbJo66581; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 08:37:29 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from mupi@mknet.org) From: Mike Porter Reply-To: mupi@mknet.org To: Alex Popa , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVidia drivers for XFree86 4 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 08:37:19 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" References: <20010118151703.A12971@ldc.ro> In-Reply-To: <20010118151703.A12971@ldc.ro> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01011808371905.62874@mukappa.home.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 January 2001 06:17, Alex Popa wrote: > Do the drivers supplied by NVidia work with our version of XFree86? > > I am currently using 4.2-STABLE and XFree 3.3.6, but am planning > to upgrade to 4.0.1 (the drivers for who are supposed to be > processor-dependent, but not OS-dependent, right?) > Well, although I would suggest upgrading to 4.0.2 instead, the "nv" driver works fine for me. I will admit that I had trouble getting the ports to work, so I went to xfree86.org and got the pre-compiled binaries for freebsd; I don't know if that will make any difference. Oh yeah, and I'm running with an old TNT-based card, too, which impressed me that they bothered to support in the nv driver, along with the TNT2 and GeForce cards..... mike -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.3 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjpnDa8ACgkQZ7GovTQbIm7KjgCggBcWtId8iCpdZedYsBR1oDjB mHYAnirpjPJRJOJa/u9dBIvTa/KjpFep =3BY0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message