Date: 26 Apr 2002 00:35:59 -0300 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Tuc <tuc@ttsg.com> Cc: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell 8200 - NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go - XF86 Message-ID: <1019792159.308.3.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <200204260219.WAA00880@heimdall.ttsg.com> References: <200204260219.WAA00880@heimdall.ttsg.com>
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On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 23:19, Tuc wrote: > > > > On Thursday 25 April 2002 10:00 pm, Tuc wrote: > > | Hi, > > | > > | Just bought a Dell 8200 with : > > | > > | NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go video controller with 64 MB of DDR RAM > > > > That's unfortunate; it would have been better to get an ATI chip (which were > > available upon request for the 7500, 8000, and 8100, at least, so probably > > for the 8200 though I don't know for sure). > > > No, it wasn't. GeForce2 or GeForce 4. > > > > But I think you can make it work if you cvsup to the latest ports and build > > XFree86 4.2 from the ports. > > > Tried to do that, but it wouldn't build. :( > > > > nvidia is, in general, bad news, and the best advice is to stay away from > > them if you can. > > > :( I was encouraged seeing the http://nvidia.netexplorer.org pages, > but I guess didn't pay enough attention. See if http://www.marcuscom.com/g2g-xfree86/article.html helps. Joe > > Thanks, Tuc/TTSG Internet Services, Inc. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > -- PGP Key: http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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