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Date:      Wed, 2 Jan 2008 09:52:48 +0800
From:      Ariff Abdullah <ariff@FreeBSD.org>
To:        eculp <eculp@encontacto.net>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Nvidia 7000m only works with vesa driver.
Message-ID:  <20080102095248.04e94e28.ariff@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071231070530.11862ktctrls790k@intranet.encontacto.net>
References:  <20071231070530.11862ktctrls790k@intranet.encontacto.net>

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On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:05:30 -0600
eculp <eculp@encontacto.net> wrote:
> On an acer 5520-5679 laptop, Nvidia 7000m only works with the vesa =20
> driver.  Is there a way to use an nv driver that should take
> advantage   of the card itself?  I'm running:
>    AMD64 Current from the latest snapshot:
>=20
> FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT-200712 #0: Sun Dec 30 11:33:37 CST 2007     =20
> root@local15.local.net.mx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENCONTACTO  amd64
>=20
> The pciconf -lv:
>=20
> vgapci0@pci0:0:18:0:    class=3D0x030000 card=3D0x01261025
> chip=3D0x053310de   rev=3D0xa2 hdr=3D0x00
>      vendor     =3D 'Nvidia Corp'
>      class      =3D display
>      subclass   =3D VGA
>=20
>=20

If you just need 2d acceleration, 1280x800 widescreen resolution, grab
http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/ports/xf86-video-nv/patch-xzz , dump
it into /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv/files/ , recompile /
install xf86-video-nv .=20

--
Ariff Abdullah
FreeBSD

... Recording in stereo is obviously too advanced
    and confusing for us idiot ***** users :P ........

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