Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:19:04 -0500 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> To: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: nvidia working? Message-ID: <478C1818.5050506@chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <20080114152623.lnpqtvs0g880kogo@newwebmail.jnielsen.net> References: <478BC29D.8030806@chuckr.org> <20080114152623.lnpqtvs0g880kogo@newwebmail.jnielsen.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Nielsen wrote: > Quoting Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org>: >> I was wondering ... I have (I think) nvidia working on my box, or at >> least, I am calling out the nvidia driver in the xorg.conf, but I was >> wondering if there is any program that only works with the nvidia >> hardware, some way I can absolutely prove that I have the real nvidia >> card working here? Before I had it working, I was using the vesa >> driver, and most things look exactly the same, and if I could fine some >> program that shows the 8600GTS's abilities, I would sure like that. > > btw -questions would probably have been a better forum for this question > than -hackers. > True, but I didn't open this thread up, I just grabbed onto the tail of one that was already opened for me. It was opened on hackers, and I figured it would be too much, both to hijack a thread because it seemed to be ending, AND also to redirect it to -questions. I know I get no credit for realizing that another list would have beeen better, most especially because I figured that multimedia would have been the better list, not - -questions. > The most straightforward approach is probably to review the output of > your Xorg log, e.g. /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Output from the nvidia driver > will be prefixed by NVIDIA (rather than VESA or NV if you were using a > different driver). > > There is also x11/nvidia-settings port. It's a control panel of sorts > that will show you nvidia-specific information. In theory it lets you > control some settings as well but personally I've never found it useful > for that. YMMV. > Now, THAT's what i was after, I figure that nvidia-settings thingy ought to answer my "is my nvidia card working in nvidia mode?" question well enough. > JN > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHjBgYz62J6PPcoOkRAqGtAJ9CSfMBnrfTUAgNw7P9KDU832wedACgkfes +55Sx6lrv+bKRrI/wqZvbDU= =PFQt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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