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Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 01:31:58 -0500
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Subject: Re: Problems with PCI-express video card
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Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> I have a nvidia PCI-express 6600 video card on an Intel SE7525GP2 
> motherboard.  I am running a fairly recent version of RELENG_5.
> 
> I am having great difficulty getting the video card to work.  On an 
> older version of Xorg it would try to use the vesa driver.  It did put 
> up some video, but it was illegible.

Just in case anyone else had this problem - intel just announced an 
update version of the BIOS for this motherboard.  Now the video card 
works wonderfully with the nvidia drivers.

Best, Stephen