Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 18 Jan 2001 12:14:00 -0800
From:      "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>
To:        <mupi@mknet.org>, "Alex Popa" <razor@ldc.ro>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: NVidia drivers for XFree86 4
Message-ID:  <013801c0818b$36b76600$6100000a@vladsempire.net>
References:  <20010118151703.A12971@ldc.ro> <01011808371905.62874@mukappa.home.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help


> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On Thursday 18 January 2001 06:17, Alex Popa wrote:
> > Do the drivers supplied by NVidia work with our version of XFree86?
> >
> > I am currently using 4.2-STABLE and XFree 3.3.6, but am planning
> > to upgrade to 4.0.1 (the drivers for who are supposed to be
> > processor-dependent, but not OS-dependent, right?)
> >
> Well, although I would suggest upgrading to 4.0.2 instead, the "nv" driver
> works fine for me.  I will admit that I had trouble getting the ports to
> work, so I went to xfree86.org and got the pre-compiled binaries for
freebsd;
> I don't know if that will make any difference.
>
> Oh yeah, and I'm running with an old TNT-based card, too, which impressed
me
> that they bothered to support in the nv driver, along with the TNT2 and
> GeForce cards.....
>

I recently upgraded Xfree from 3.3.6 to 4.0.2 using the port and had no
trouble at all.  My Grforce2 GTS DDR works just fine.

Josh





To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?013801c0818b$36b76600$6100000a>