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Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 12:48:34 +0100
From: Ernst de Haan <ernst@jollem.com>
To: Pete Young <peteyng@home.com>
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Subject: Re: GeForce 2 MX && XFree86 4.0.1
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Weehoooo !!!!!

It worx! Thanks a lot for all the help I got!

Ernst

Pete Young wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Nov 2000 01:18:53 +0100, Ernst de Haan wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >After the problems I head with my upgrade from XFree86 3.3.6 to 4.0.1 (using
> >the port, on an NVidia TNT card) I cvsupdated my sources, made world,
> >recompiled and -installed kernel, etc. No luck. Recompiled the port, no luck.
> >So I tried running it with an NVidia TNT2 card. No luck.
> >
> >At the moment, I exchanged the TNT2 card for a GeForce 2 MX, and I 
> downloaded
> >a binary distro from xfree86.org. Guess what? The Geforce 2 isn't supported
> >yet :-/
> >
> >Does any1 have experience with using a GeForce 2 (MX) card with XFree86 ?
> >
> Support for the Geforce 2 has not been included with the latest release of  
> XFree86 yet but it has been added to the CVS repository.
> 
> I used the FreeBSD port system to build it.  Here are the steps that worked.
> 
> 	cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4
> 	make patch
> 
> I then copied these files from the XFree86 anoncvs repository to the same
> directories under /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4/work/
> 
> 	xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/xf86PciInfo.h
> 	xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/nv/nv_driver.c
> 	xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/nv/nv_include.h
> 	xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/nv/nv_local.h
> 	xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/nv/nv_type.h
> 	xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/nv/riva_tbl.h
> 	xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/nv/nv_xaa.c
> 
> Edit nv_include.h and remove the line   #include "vbe.h"  .  Finish
> with
> 
> 	cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4
> 	make install
> 	XFree86 -configure
> 
> Good luck.
> -
> Pete
> 
> 


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