Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 10:18:15 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>, <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: "FreeBSD as a Desktop" heh, heh.... Message-ID: <20021104101519.I57495-100000@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <3DC67B54.4040709@centtech.com>
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On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Eric Anderson wrote: > Chris Dillon wrote: > > The newest NVidia cards work fine with FreeBSD's XFree86 port. I > > created a patchset for XFree86 that added support for the newest cards > > to the nv driver which was added to the XFree86 port on August 5. > > You have to either build XFree86 from the ports, or use > > FreeBSD.org-built binaries made after that date. The > > XFree86.org-built binaries will not have any improvements incorporated > > in them after the day that particular version of XFree86 was released. > > I'm running 4.7-RELEASE, shouldn't that be new enough? I would think so. I see the patches in the port, I hope they actually get put into the binary packages. Do you have a particular card that isn't working? If so, paste the relevant portion of pciconf -l -v output. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon(at)wolves.k12.mo.us FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet - Available for IA32 (Intel x86) and Alpha architectures - IA64, PowerPC, UltraSPARC, ARM, and S/390 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-chat" in the body of the message
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