From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 18 10:17:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CA0D37B404 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:17:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from mark8 (hutch-519.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.158]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id MAA18943; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 12:14:34 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <013801c0818b$36b76600$6100000a@vladsempire.net> From: "Josh Paetzel" To: , "Alex Popa" , References: <20010118151703.A12971@ldc.ro> <01011808371905.62874@mukappa.home.com> Subject: Re: NVidia drivers for XFree86 4 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 12:14:00 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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..... > I recently upgraded Xfree from 3.3.6 to 4.0.2 using the port and had no trouble at all. My Grforce2 GTS DDR works just fine. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message