Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 01:21:46 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <ahasty@mindspring.com> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Fwd: Good news from NVIDIA] Message-ID: <37563B1A.9438F0F8@mindspring.com> References: <XFMail.990603153022.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Hi,
I have a Diamond Viper V770 (TNT2) and the patches appears to work 8)
It was not hard to build
cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86
make
mid way of building the X makefiles I paused the build and apply
the NVidia's patches which are only for the nvidia software modules.
continue the build. Copy XF86_SVGA to my /usr/X11R6/bin and
presto I now have X back again...
Will try later on to run xbench to see how fast is this card. my system
is a Pentium III 450 Mhz with 128mb of SDRAM and obscene amount
of memory compare to what I used to have to develop X Servers with
(8MB of memory) back in the 386bsd days.
With a resonable fast system X takes about 35 or 40minutes to build
very reasonable in my opinion .
Enjoy,
Amancio
Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On 03-Jun-99 Wes Peters wrote:
> > > http://www.nvidia.com/Marketing/Products/Pages.nsf/pages/NVIDIA_Drivers
> >
> > Does anyone know how/if/when this will bleed over to FreeBSD? A
> > killer cheap OpenGL box might be kinda fun to have, and I'm already
> > in the market for another desktop. TNT cards have gotten pretty
> > cheap...
>
> Well the patches are there :)
>
> I suppose it would work OK, but no TNT to test with either.
>
> My friend is getting an Asus TNT2 soon, so I will try it and see :)
>
> ---
> Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
> for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
> "The nice thing about standards is that there
> are so many of them to choose from."
> -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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