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Date:      Tue, 3 Aug 2004 16:10:42 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Mayo Jordanov <mayo@mayo.sk>
Subject:   Re: nvidia binary drivers no longer work
Message-ID:  <200408031610.42962.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <1091513552.4226.4.camel@einstein.local.nfy>
References:  <1091385943.873.4.camel@taxman> <200408020938.02238.dfr@nlsystems.com> <1091513552.4226.4.camel@einstein.local.nfy>

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On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 15:42, Mayo Jordanov wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 01:38, Doug Rabson wrote:
> > On Sunday 01 August 2004 19:45, Stefan Ehmann wrote:
> > > After today's cvsup the system freezes when I try to start X using
> > > the nvidia binary driver. The nv driver still works.
> > >
> > > ~1 week old kernel doesn't have this problem.
> >
> > If you can be patient, there will be a new release of the nvidia binary
> > driver fairly soon (which also supports libpthread and libthr).
>
> Do you have any idea if it has/will have support for the 5700 chipset?

I'd imagine it would be of a similar vintage to the latest Linux driver, so=
 it=20
should support newer cards like that.

The linux driver is at 61.06, the win32 driver 61.77. The notes for the lin=
ux=20
driver say it adds support for the 6800, so I imagine the 5700 is supported.

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