From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 5 09:04:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BBAF16A4CE for ; Wed, 5 May 2004 09:04:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-bedford.mitre.org (smtp-bedford-x.mitre.org [192.160.51.76]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7098443D1F for ; Wed, 5 May 2004 09:04:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from smtp-bedford.mitre.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp-bedford.mitre.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i45G4rT30452 for ; Wed, 5 May 2004 12:04:53 -0400 Received: from mailsrv2a (mailsrv2a.mitre.org [129.83.221.56]) by smtp-bedford.mitre.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i45G4ql30422; Wed, 5 May 2004 12:04:52 -0400 Received: from mitre.org (mm112324-2k.mitre.org [128.29.3.25]) by mailsrv2a.mitre.org (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.16 (built May 14 2003)) with ESMTPA id <0HX90002S0O4AT@mailsrv2a.mitre.org>; Wed, 05 May 2004 12:04:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 12:04:51 -0400 From: Jason Andresen In-reply-to: <115944527.20040505112857@andric.com> To: Dimitry Andric Message-id: <409910A3.9090708@mitre.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 References: <40982623.2090804@bellsouth.net> <20040505102632.73f67bbe.manlix@demonized.net> <115944527.20040505112857@andric.com> cc: nilson@bellsouth.net cc: Johan Pettersson cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nVidia FX Support? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 16:04:55 -0000 Dimitry Andric 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: 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. :) I have a GeForce FX 5900 that works with the latest Nvidia binary only module. The probe complains that it doens't know the card, but it still manages to make it work anyway. nvidia0: mem 0xd0000000-0xd7ffffff,0xdb000000-0xdbffffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci3 According to XFree's log, it even manages to use the AGP and bumps the speed up to 8x. (II) NVIDIA(0): AGP 8X successfully initialized X doesn't know exactly what kind of chip it is, but seems able to autodetect all of the interesting features anyway. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755