From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 1 03:53:25 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2F6316A401 for ; Tue, 1 May 2007 03:53:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from r.neese@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE3D813C458 for ; Tue, 1 May 2007 03:53:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from r.neese@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id f31so1528699pyh for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:53:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=rHQb6GkdENvEtDERi5/8TfeYVz2UOG+gTK7NlSg/yEyN3MyH/xSi2P8TC5kp0R8VGl31UNkEB1LwvWeAKAcr7VIuwhR/lysX/w0xMyEnCm9svlGdhjhIaMEmpaSKsRHi5Z7cbctn6G5P/RsLkGBiEsRN3e9ZNtK9HzmZ0Dq4i/w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=fksXZ7HD4KlSEAhKt8fbuZZNAYUHXSoOdu8Eq+cs+HTcz8uuz/RphnP8ejeR5guJ0a02U/fcEuAeKpVSW1yuZqv7tJSNmwBNAYP1Vexy5JjLMmkv42CN2PAwnBjH+pzb8/f02+UmNoNG4SHJvy8EYSc6fbZ0767s1fBjIgTFOmA= Received: by 10.35.51.19 with SMTP id d19mr12541415pyk.1177991604856; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:53:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.53? ( [71.128.4.33]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id n63sm9694284pyh.2007.04.30.20.53.21; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:53:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Neese To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:53:33 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <7b0c7ad70704301624x7898ce28rf36e6d7b925827f2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7b0c7ad70704301624x7898ce28rf36e6d7b925827f2@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704302053.33476.r.neese@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 03:53:26 -0000 the ATI driver should work fine. I have the same chipset on my laptop and the ATI driver works On Monday 30 April 2007 16:24:59 David Kalliecharan wrote: > Hello everyone! > I seem to run into a snag, I am going to buy a laptop for school work as I > my Laptop currently has become useless as I need to use Matlab/octave for > developing and opengl is a requirement for 3d mapping for creating visuals > (I would like to have Opengl to take advantage of this), the Ati driver > does not work, in a previous e-mail I found out that my chipset was no > longer supported by Ati (xpress 200m) > > The new laptop will have an Nvida Graphics cards (geforce go 6150 not much > better in specs but will do the job I need) The problem is that all of the > laptops that at this time are supporting Nvidia in my area all seem to be > AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual cores and AMD Turion 64 mobile. > > The question is does FreeBSD have any problems with the install on Dual > core using the i386 install disk? If not what about setting the make.conf > file for compiling Applications? I am used to using gentoo linux to do > things and am having a hard time finding this information, I know its > similar but I want to make sure its up and running properly, also Does > anyone know how the Geforce Go 6150 runs using the laest 1.0-9xxx series > driver in the ports tree?. So if anyone can point me in the right direction > of installing FreeBSD within the next few days on a Dual Core (if there any > snags or not using FreeBSD-6.2 stable) I would greatly appreciate it!