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Subject: Re: nvidia 1.0-7174 & dell 8600
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Ron Freidel wrote:

>My question is... has anyone with a dell i8600 tried it? With 5.3 or 5.4
>or even 6? Does it work? Can I go back to my favorite os now
>  
>
>For those who were unaware, on a dell i8600 with nvidia FX Go5200 and
>the nvidia driver the whole machine would lockup when starting X, you
>couldn't ssh in or anything, the only thing possible was to power off. I
>sure hope they fixed that.
>  
>
I have a Dell Latitude D800 with nvidia FX Go5200  which had exactly 
those problems you describe with the previos driver. I run FreeBSD 
5.3-STABLE.

And yes, the new driver works perfectly!

Mvh Søren