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Date:      Sun, 29 Jul 2001 09:14:27 -0500
From:      David Leimbach <leimbacd@bellsouth.net>
To:        "?? ??" <da_yorks@msn.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: NVIDIA GeForece2 Go
Message-ID:  <01072909142700.00715@mutt.home.net>
In-Reply-To: <OE1494U9za1P92OLakV0000d64f@hotmail.com>
References:  <OE1494U9za1P92OLakV0000d64f@hotmail.com>

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I am using one right now... Most likely you need to upgrade XFree86.  The 
version that came with FreeBSD 4.2 and 4.3 was using XFree86 3.3.6 I believe. 
 This is because even though the newer XFree86 supports basically all the 
more popular newer cards the older X version had support for some really 
obscure old ones.

You have a popular newer one and thusly should upgrade X.

There are two ways to do this.... use the ports collection or go directly to 
www.xfree86.org and get the native FreeBSD binaries... [I got the native 
binaries... and did the manual install]  The disadvantage of not using the 
ports collection is that uninstalling it is more difficult because you will 
have to manually keep track of all the programs and libraries that X puts on 
your system.

I find that to be a rather silly argument since I never plan to remove X.  
XFree86.org has instructions on how to upgrade stuff too so don't worry too 
much.

Dave

On Saturday 28 July 2001 19:58, ?? ?? wrote:
> Has anyone ever gotten this to work and if so, what did
> you do?
>
> - Thanks

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