From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 1 19:56: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD2F737B443 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 19:56:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from go4.ext.ti.com (go4.ext.ti.com [192.91.75.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38BA243EB2 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 19:56:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gauthamg123list@myrealbox.com) Received: from dlep50.itg.ti.com ([157.170.141.74]) by go4.ext.ti.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gB23tsJY025985; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 21:55:54 -0600 (CST) Received: from dlep50.itg.ti.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dlep50.itg.ti.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gB23trnG021518; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 21:55:53 -0600 (CST) Received: from popsvr.india.ti.com (popsvr.india.ti.com [157.87.95.215]) by dlep50.itg.ti.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gB23tp1V021503; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 21:55:52 -0600 (CST) Received: from gautham ([192.168.185.126]) by popsvr.india.ti.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA03287; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 09:25:46 +0530 (IST) Reply-To: From: "Gautham Ganapathy" To: "Laszlo Vagner" Cc: "Questions @ FreeBSD" Subject: RE: nVidia drivers w/ 4.7-RELEASE Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 09:25:14 +0530 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <3DDD6DAA.7000108@vagner.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal 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 Friday, November 22, 2002 5:05 AM, Laszlo Vagner wrote > > lewiz wrote: > > >On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 08:25:39AM +0530, Gautham Ganapathy wrote: > > > > > >>Will the nvidia drivers work with 4.7-RELEASE? 4.7-STABLE won't have > >>ISOs, right? > >> > >> > > > >You need 4.7-STABLE to get the NVidia drivers working. I don't know > >exactly what -RELEASE is missing but I'm quite sure. There are still > >problems with them (they hang my machine all the time) so be prepared > >for trouble. > > > >-lewiz. > > > > > > > Yes I just installed the nvidia drivers for my TI 4200 card and > ymessenger crashes the machine, > it just makes some clicking sounds from the sound card and > then reboots > without syncing disks. > > I am running Xfree 4.2.0_1, libraries 4.2.1_3, server 4.2.1_5 and > client 4.2.1_2 this is greater than > required by the nvidia instructions. The driver did get rid of the > missing pixels in the xterm window > but you cant use the machine reliable anymore. > > I am getting this error in netscape now also, "translation > table unknown > keysym name somekeyname" > I tried deinstalling it and reinstalling 4.8 without change. > > next is to change the xserver driver and see if that changes anything. > I just downloaded and tried out quake3 demo. worked fine. no crashes. i have to try out the timedemo and ut2003. Running 'timedemo ' will give me the fps, right? Rather than instantaneous, can I get an average fps with this command? Regards Gautham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message