From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 4 5:51:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E2D237B401 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 05:51:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [207.200.51.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4B0043E3B for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 05:51:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gA4DpUs13350; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 07:51:30 -0600 (CST) Received: (from root@localhost) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id gA4DpUc08974; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 07:51:30 -0600 (CST) Received: from centtech.com (electron [204.177.173.173]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gA4DpNx08967; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 07:51:23 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3DC67B54.4040709@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 07:51:16 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Dillon Cc: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "FreeBSD as a Desktop" heh, heh.... References: <20021101165242.B46031-100000@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Chris Dillon wrote: > The newest NVidia cards work fine with FreeBSD's XFree86 port. I > created a patchset for XFree86 that added support for the newest cards > to the nv driver which was added to the XFree86 port on August 5. > You have to either build XFree86 from the ports, or use > FreeBSD.org-built binaries made after that date. The > XFree86.org-built binaries will not have any improvements incorporated > in them after the day that particular version of XFree86 was released. I'm running 4.7-RELEASE, shouldn't that be new enough? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Beware the fury of a patient man. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message