From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Jun 13 14:39:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABC4937B400 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 14:39:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA64963; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 16:39:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 16:39:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Cc: Jason Andresen , Subject: Re: Status of NV drivers? In-Reply-To: <20020611144018.K42854-100000@sasami.jurai.net> Message-ID: <20020613163112.O63254-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > Since the drivers at ftp://ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/nvidia/ don't > support any of the GeForce 4 line you may be better off with ATI. > The XFree86-4 'nv' driver from CVS might support the GF-4. It does, and even the version of the nv driver in our XFree86-4 port supports it with some simple patching (just adding the PCI IDs). The patch I came up with for supporting all of the GeForce4 cards in our XFree86-4 port is at: ftp://ftp.wolves.k12.mo.us/pub/stuff/nvpatch.tar.gz Drop the extracted files in ports/x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server/files and make that port or the meta-port, or apply them manually. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon(at)wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon(at)inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet - Available for IA32 (Intel x86) and Alpha architectures - IA64, PowerPC, UltraSPARC, and ARM architectures under development - http://www.freebsd.org No trees were harmed in the composition of this message, although some electrons were mildly inconvenienced. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message