From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Apr 25 19:19:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from heimdall.ttsg.com (207-237-196-99.c3-0.nyr-ubr3.nyr.ny.cable.rcn.com [207.237.196.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E00437B417 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 19:19:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tuc@localhost) by heimdall.ttsg.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA00880; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 22:19:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Tuc Message-Id: <200204260219.WAA00880@heimdall.ttsg.com> Subject: Re: Dell 8200 - NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go - XF86 To: bts@babbleon.org (Brian T.Schellenberger) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 22:19:52 -0400 (EDT) Cc: tuc@ttsg.com (Tuc), freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020426020722.36BAABB29@i8k.babbleon.org> from "Brian T.Schellenberger" at Apr 25, 2002 10:07:21 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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). > 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. Thanks, Tuc/TTSG Internet Services, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message