From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Apr 25 19: 7:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail8.nc.rr.com (fe8.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21E4C37B400 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 19:07:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.86.84]) by mail8.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Thu, 25 Apr 2002 22:07:26 -0400 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id 36BAABB29; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 22:07:22 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: Tuc , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell 8200 - NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go - XF86 Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 22:07:21 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <200204260200.WAA00709@heimdall.ttsg.com> In-Reply-To: <200204260200.WAA00709@heimdall.ttsg.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020426020722.36BAABB29@i8k.babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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). But I think you can make it work if you cvsup to the latest ports and build XFree86 4.2 from the ports. nvidia is, in general, bad news, and the best advice is to stay away from them if you can. | | | I tried to get it running with 4.5-STABLE. I tried the drivers | from the Nvidia group, and it didn't work/had problems. I've tried | contacting them a few times, no replies. | | Anyone know a way to get this running? My old Inspiron 7000 is | giving up the ghost big time (The screen just ripped off of its post). I | just atleast need it running in 800x600 or whatever to start with. | SOMETHING to atleast getting X running and usable.. I haven't loaded any | customized config/etc (VIRGIN LOAD) so if I need to go to 4.5-CURRENT or | 5.0 or whatever, I'LL GO! | | Thanks, Tuc/TTSG Internet Services, Inc. | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org If you smell the smoke you don't need to be told what you've got to do; Yet there's a certain breed, so very in-between, they'd rather take a vote. -- DEVO -- Here To Go To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message