From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 5 14:34:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59AA537B401 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 14:34:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [207.200.51.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6854E43E42 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 14:34:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gA5MYos07567; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 16:34:50 -0600 (CST) Received: (from root@localhost) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id gA5MYos27662; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 16:34:50 -0600 (CST) Received: from centtech.com (electron [204.177.173.173]) by -i (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gA5MYju27637; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 16:34:46 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3DC84780.8060002@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 16:34:40 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Dillon Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "FreeBSD as a Desktop" heh, heh.... References: <20021104101519.I57495-100000@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Chris Dillon wrote: > On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Eric Anderson wrote: > > >>Chris Dillon wrote: >> >>>The newest NVidia cards work fine with FreeBSD's XFree86 port. I >>>created a patchset for XFree86 that added support for the newest cards >>>to the nv driver which was added to the XFree86 port on August 5. >>>You have to either build XFree86 from the ports, or use >>>FreeBSD.org-built binaries made after that date. The >>>XFree86.org-built binaries will not have any improvements incorporated >>>in them after the day that particular version of XFree86 was released. >> >>I'm running 4.7-RELEASE, shouldn't that be new enough? > > > I would think so. I see the patches in the port, I hope they actually > get put into the binary packages. Do you have a particular card that > isn't working? If so, paste the relevant portion of pciconf -l -v > output. On my notebook: none1@pci1:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x00e41028 chip=0x011210de rev=0xb2 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Nvidia Corporation' device = 'GeForce2 MX Ultra [NV11]' class = display subclass = VGA and on my desktop: none1@pci1:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x87831462 chip=0x017210de rev=0xa3 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Nvidia Corporation' device = 'GeForce4 MX 420 [NV17.3]' class = display subclass = VGA Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Beware the fury of a patient man. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message