From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 10 22:39: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 178AA37B417 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 22:39:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from there ([66.57.85.154]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Fri, 11 Jan 2002 01:38:55 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: "Hiten Pandya" , Roberto Armenteros , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: does freeBSD 4.4 support Nvidia Geforce 2??? Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 01:38:46 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <06d085538060b12FE5@mail5.nc.rr.com> 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 11 January 2002 01:03 am, Hiten Pandya wrote: > hi, > Support for Nvidia GeForce 2/3, All variants has been added in FreeBSD > version 4.4 of the release. Technically, the X Window is whole > different ball game :). Our current version, as of 4.4 is X-Win 4.1.0, > which has support for Nvidia cards. If you require further assistance, > do not hesitate on contacting me... :-) Umm . . . perhaps I'm confused, but I think that 4.4-RELEASE (that is, the CD, does have 4.1.0, but it's not what you get if you ask for X, that's still 3.3.6 or something. That is, the X 4.x packages are there but you have to install it as a package, not as a pre-formed configuration. (BTW, will 4.5 default-intall X 4 or X3?) > > thanks, > regards, > Hiten Pandya > > > > Security Fingerprint: > 45 a5 9c f2 fb 07 da 70 18 02 0b f3 63 f1 7a a6 hitenp@hpdi.ath.cx > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Roberto Armenteros > Date: Saturday, January 12, 2002 2:23 am > Subject: does freeBSD 4.4 support Nvidia Geforce 2??? > > > Hi, thanks for reading my mail > > First of all, how can I join any of the mailing lists. > > When i go to the mailing lists page at freeBSD.org, i > > see a whole bunch of lists but I dont find a link to > > register. How do I register for a specific mailing > > list??? A beginner list even better. > > > > 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org -------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! (let him go home) <----------- http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message