From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 10 18:30:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.tekrealm.net (dsl081-247-162.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.247.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DA1B37B405 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 18:30:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freebsd.tekrealm.net (8.11.6/8.11.4) id g0B2UDD71204; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 18:30:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from elitetek@tekrealm.net) Received: (from elitetek@localhost) by freebsd.tekrealm.net (8.11.6/8.11.4av) id g0B2UCn71196; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 18:30:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from elitetek@tekrealm.net) X-Authentication-Warning: freebsd.tekrealm.net: elitetek set sender to elitetek@tekrealm.net using -f Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 18:30:11 -0800 From: Andrew Stuart To: Roberto Armenteros Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: does freeBSD 4.4 support Nvidia Geforce 2??? Message-ID: <20020110183011.B70804@freebsd.tekrealm.net> Reply-To: elitetek@tekrealm.net References: <20020111022325.10382.qmail@web13601.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020111022325.10382.qmail@web13601.mail.yahoo.com>; from rarmente@yahoo.com on Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 06:23:25PM -0800 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 at 18:23:25 -0800, Roberto Armenteros wrote: > Now, this is my question. I installed freeBSD 4.1 on > my computer for a test. The network part worked great, > but when I setup X i could not find my video card > "Nvidia GeForce 2 GTS" I found other Nvidia cards but > not mine. I hope support to this card is added in new > editions "4.4" and thats what I would like to confirm. > If somebody knows about this, please let me know. > Also, what X server should I install in order to > provide support to the NVidia GeForce 2 family. In the > list provided in the installation program, I could not > find anything refering to Nvidia. I saw Virge, S3, IBM > and a many others. Again, this was FreeBSD 4.1. I > would really appreciate your help... > > Roberto Armenteros > Freebsd will support just about any video card, as far as X that is a different story, which version of X are you using? the Geforce 2 is supported in X 4.0.1 and higher, I am not sure if 3.3.6 supports it or not, but if it does, it will use the nv driver. edit your XF86Config and look at the Device section. you should have a line that looks simular to: Driver "nv" I hope this helps. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message