Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 10:05:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org> To: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com> Cc: Juan Rodriguez Hervella <jrh@it.uc3m.es> Subject: Re: NVidia kernel driver support for FreeBSD-5.1 Message-ID: <20030618100405.W78954@alpha.yumyumyum.org> In-Reply-To: <3EF06972.3080104@myrealbox.com> References: <200306180914.22834.jrh@it.uc3m.es> <3EF06972.3080104@myrealbox.com>
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> #pciconf -l -v > > none1@pci0:12:0: class=0x030000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x002d10de rev=0x15 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' > device = 'NV5 TNT2 Model 64 / TNT2 Model 64 Pro' > > This is my video card, which sounds just like yours. I have it working > fine with the native XFree 'nv' module, but two caveats: The nv module won't support 3d acceleration. IF you want 3d accel, you have to use nvidia's binary driver. > > First, once you have installed the driver from NVidia, your /usr/X11 > tree will contain files that prevent the native 'nv' module from working. > I was never able to figure out which files were responsible so I finally > deleted the entire /usr/X11 tree and reinstalled everything from scratch. > > Second, you must be very careful which modules you load in your XF86Config. > There is at least one module which will prevent everything from working-- > unfortuneately I can't remember which one :0( > > Section "Module" > Load "extmod" > Load "xie" > Load "pex5" > Load "dbe" > Load "record" > Load "xtrap" > Load "speedo" > # Load "glx" > Load "type1" > Load "freetype" > EndSection > > Notice that I have 'glx' commented out -- I think that's the reason I > did that, but it was a long time ago. You did it because the nvidia binary drivers require you to. Ken
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