Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 11:28:57 +0200 From: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> To: Johan Pettersson <manlix@demonized.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nVidia FX Support? Message-ID: <115944527.20040505112857@andric.com> In-Reply-To: <20040505102632.73f67bbe.manlix@demonized.net> References: <40982623.2090804@bellsouth.net> <200405051042.32879.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20040505102632.73f67bbe.manlix@demonized.net>
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------------1249E2492C870489 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2004-05-05 at 10:26:32 Johan Pettersson wrote: >> You can use the binary only driver if you have an IA-32 system (ie in >> /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver). I have.. >> nvidia0: <GeForce FX Go5200> mem > That driver hasn't worked for me since 5.1-RELEASE. I have tried various > ways to get it to work. FreeBSD locks up when starting X. The problem is that NVidia hasn't updated its binary-only FreeBSD driver since July 1st, 2003. Any cards released after this date will not work properly, or at all, with this driver. So please go bug NVidia. :) But, see also this thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-threads/2003-June/000530.html which might explain why it takes forever for new drivers to arrive. :( ------------1249E2492C870489 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) iD8DBQFAmLPZsF6jCi4glqMRAgvzAKC2nHflKAHLbcjsNhqvNkvBbuDjygCeJPvy 7BBSmocsJ5kY3Gh+eJZETro= =GXGd -----END PGP MESSAGE----- ------------1249E2492C870489--
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