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From: Johan Pettersson <manlix@demonized.net>
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Subject: Re: nVidia FX Support?
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On Wed, 5 May 2004 11:28:57 +0200
Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> wrote:

> On 2004-05-05 at 10:26:32 Johan Pettersson wrote:
> 
> >> You can use the binary only driver if you have an IA-32 system (ie
> >in>  /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver). I have..
> >> nvidia0: <GeForce FX Go5200> mem
> 
> > That driver hasn't worked for me since 5.1-RELEASE. I have tried
> > various ways to get it to work. FreeBSD locks up when starting X.
> 
> The problem is that NVidia hasn't updated its binary-only FreeBSD
> driver since July 1st, 2003.  Any cards released after this date will
> not work properly, or at all, with this driver.  So please go bug
> NVidia. :)
> 
> But, see also this thread:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-threads/2003-June/000530.html
> 
> which might explain why it takes forever for new drivers to arrive. :(
> 

Yes, read that. I have a Geforce2 so the drivers should have good
support for this.