Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 22:19:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Tuc <tuc@ttsg.com> To: bts@babbleon.org (Brian T.Schellenberger) Cc: tuc@ttsg.com (Tuc), freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell 8200 - NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go - XF86 Message-ID: <200204260219.WAA00880@heimdall.ttsg.com> In-Reply-To: <20020426020722.36BAABB29@i8k.babbleon.org> from "Brian T.Schellenberger" at Apr 25, 2002 10:07:21 PM
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> > 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
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