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Date:      Tue, 10 May 2005 12:37:36 -0400
From:      "Rod Person" <personrp@hotpop.com>
To:        joeborg@ieee.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NVIDIA Driver on 5.4 RC3
Message-ID:  <op.sqki4y1npt669z@110-ccbh-97.ccbh.upmc.edu>
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On Tue, 10 May 2005 12:24:30 -0400, Joseph Borg <juu.borg@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I've got an NVIDIA TNT2 and I'm trying to install NVIDIA's driver on the  
> AMD
> 64 Release of 5.4 RC3. The driver I'm trying to install is:
> NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-7174.tar.gz.
>
> When I try to install it, make stops with an error saying that vm86.h was
> not found. Has anyone come across this problem before?

I have the same type of card and use the NVIDIA driver with no problem.
I'm not sure, but does the driver support AMD 64 cpu??

> Alternatively, does anyone know of another driver I can use with my card
> that will support 1024x768 at true colour depth?

The Xorg driver 'nv' - I believe it is - should support 1024x768, it just
doesn't do the 3D acceleration of the Nvidia driver.

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