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On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 00:42 +0000, Ben Kaduk wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> As many of you know, nvidia recently released (in april) new FreeBSD
> drivers for their graphics cards.  I have installed this driver, and
> it seems to work well on my GeForce Ti 4200 Go here.
> I seem to recall that the port has been unusable on -current for a
> while due to some api/abi changes, but the new version from nVidia
> works fine.
> 
> I made some patches, though I am a novice to the ports collection and
> they may need correction:

There have been patches already submitted last month, but the maintainer
is not responding. I already asked on this list if someone else could
commit them.