From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 15 02:22:32 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69FA116A417 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:22:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40EFF13C45B for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:22:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: (qmail 19136 invoked from network); 15 Jan 2008 02:22:31 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 15 Jan 2008 02:22:31 -0000 Message-ID: <478C1818.5050506@chuckr.org> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:19:04 -0500 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071107) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Nielsen References: <478BC29D.8030806@chuckr.org> <20080114152623.lnpqtvs0g880kogo@newwebmail.jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <20080114152623.lnpqtvs0g880kogo@newwebmail.jnielsen.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers Subject: Re: nvidia working? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:22:32 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Nielsen wrote: > Quoting Chuck Robey : >> 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-----