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Hi ,

May I ask a question here, else just ignore.

I am trying to use the new nvidia driver in XF86 as presented in:
http://www.marcuscom.com/g2g-xfree86/article.html.

My system:
Dell inspiron notebook 8100 with nvidia gforce 2.
FreeBSD 4.4 
Currently I use X in vesa mode at 1200*1024  
(which looks supprisingly good on a 1600*1200 LCD)

The article says:
goto ports/XFree86-4-Server
make deinstall 

But this wont work if X has been installed as a package
from a normal cd installation.

So I did :
pkg_delete   XFree86-Server-4.1.????  (dont know precise version)

And I did the installation from ports 
x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server
which installs server version 4.2.???

But then a lot of executables seem to be missing, at least:
xinit startx mkfontsdir ...

The pkg_delete seems to remove too much , or the server install
fails to install tools.

I have now installed FreeBSD4.5, is there a procedure to 
install this new driver even if I have installed the X stuff as 
a package from a simple cd installation ?


greetings 
Rob Frohwein

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