From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 5 04:16:51 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E82AF16A4CE for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 04:16:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from DMZ1.onewest.net (dmz1.onewest.net [199.104.81.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCD6443D54 for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 04:16:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rfreidel@onewest.net) Received: from du85.192.onewest.net ([65.19.192.85] helo=mobile) by DMZ1.onewest.net with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1DIfUh-0000CW-00 for ; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:16:51 -0600 Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 23:16:51 -0600 From: Ron Freidel To: mobile@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20050404231651.5e47143f.rfreidel@onewest.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0-gtk2-20041224 (GTK+ 2.6.4; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: nvidia 1.0-7174 & dell 8600 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 04:16:52 -0000 I gave up waiting for nvidia to release a new driver that hopefully would work on a dell i8600 and installed Arch Linux, went to go download the nvidia driver and noticed that they had a new driver for FreeBSD (thats my luck). I checked just before doing the deed too. My question is... has anyone with a dell i8600 tried it? With 5.3 or 5.4 or even 6? Does it work? Can I go back to my favorite os now? For those who were unaware, on a dell i8600 with nvidia FX Go5200 and the nvidia driver the whole machine would lockup when starting X, you couldn't ssh in or anything, the only thing possible was to power off. I sure hope they fixed that. Thanks, Ron