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Date:      Sat, 23 Aug 2003 15:10:09 +1000
From:      "Alastair G. Hogge" <agh@tpg.com.au>
To:        Dragoncrest <dragoncrest@voyager.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Configuring GeForce FX 5200 in X?
Message-ID:  <200308231510.09983.agh@tpg.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030823010417.00a17570@pop.voyager.net>
References:  <5.2.0.9.2.20030823010417.00a17570@pop.voyager.net>

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On Saturday, 23 August 2003 15:07, Dragoncrest wrote:
> 	Hi all.  Just got a GeForce4 FX 5200 to install in a new Freebsd box and
> I'm trying to configure X to use it, but I don't see the card listed
> anywhere in the list of cards on the machine.  What do I do in order to
> configure the card itself?  I'd like to get it installed and running in
> there if possible.  If it's not one that bsd will use, I'll just swap my
> GF3 out of my win box instead, but I'd rather get this going of
> possible.  Can anyone point me in the direction of how to get this working
> or which driver to use?
Install /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver and then in your XF86Config swap your 
video card driver with nvidia. Reboot and hopefully you will have a working 
FX5200 on FreeBSD :-)

HTH
-Al



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