Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:01:58 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: "Anthony M. Agelastos" <iqgrande@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, markzero <mark@darklogik.org> Subject: Re: NVIDIA TNT2 woes Message-ID: <42C3ED46.7020901@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <11E66443-1CFF-4CE8-AEF3-F3E4A4ED75AD@gmail.com> References: <20050630001004.GA60781@logik.ath.cx> <42C3BB88.60609@dial.pipex.com> <11E66443-1CFF-4CE8-AEF3-F3E4A4ED75AD@gmail.com>
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Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: > > On Jun 30, 2005, at 5:29 AM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > >> markzero wrote: >> >>> Oh the joys of binary drivers. >>> >>> I awake from a peaceful slumber after a portupgrade to find that >>> I suddenly no longer have X. [...] >> >>> (WW) The NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro GPU installed in >>> (WW) this system is supported through the NVIDIA Legacy >>> (WW) drivers. Please visit >>> (WW) http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more >>> (WW) information. The 1.0-7667 NVIDIA driver will ignore this >>> (WW) GPU. Continuing probe... (EE) No devices detected. >>> >>> The NVIDIA Legacy drivers magically fail to exist on the NVIDIA >>> site and there appears no be no port for them either. >> >> Can you use the x.org "nv" driver instead? I've never really >> figured out what the binary driver buys you over the standard one, >> but then all I do is run X with fvwm2, mainly for software >> development, so I have never needed any "fancy" features. (I've >> never had a TNT2, but I believe it's supported). >> >> Man nv says under supported cards: >> >> RIVA TNT2 NV5 > > I am having the same problem with a RIVA TNT card. Changing the > driver from nvidia to nv in /etc/X11/xorg.conf allows me to enter > X11. This is all unfortunate, however. These binary drivers provide > GLX extensions to X11 for NVIDIA cards (so I could type glxgears at > the prompt and have it actually do something). I hope this site > exists soon and someone makes a port for it; I enjoyed knowing that > if I needed to play an OpenGL game that wasn't too hardcore, I could > do it with this computer (I could actually play Quake 3 pretty well > with those drivers). As far as I understand, the *only* people who can make that driver exists again are NVidia. I suggest you contact them and ask why they removed support for your graphics card. I don't expect that they will care or do anything, but they certainly won't if you don't tell them. --Alex
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