From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 18 16:15:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B35D37B4D7 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:15:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rac1.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac1.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.141]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA14530; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 19:14:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac1.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac1.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA25207; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 19:14:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac1.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA25203; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 19:14:50 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac1.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 19:14:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Chris Dempsey Cc: Ian Fricker , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Geforce 2 In-Reply-To: <20001018063743.6856.qmail@web122.yahoomail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm not sure what u all are talking about, I have a GeForce II MX, which I am using to type this messege in X right now. 3d accel doesn't work of course, but 2D works just fine with XFree86 4.0.1 CVS. ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Chris Dempsey wrote: > Ian, > > Join the club of nonsupported GeForce 2 users. > Currently, there are XFree86 drivers, but no FreeBSD > kernel drivers. You need both. GeForce does work > under linux, using drivers available from > www.nvidia.com. As of last week, the people at NVidia > are "getting to it, but nobody at FreeBSD will help > us." I don't know if that is true on the FreeBSD end, > but needless to say you are stuck with either the > console or using X through linux. > > It is possible that FreeBSD binaries will be available > by mid to late-November. That is the best guess they > could give. > > Chris Dempsey > > > --- Ian Fricker wrote: > > Hello, > > I recently installed freebsd. I have a Creative Labs > > 3D Annihilator 2 with Nvidia's GeForce 2 chipset. It > > isn't supported, and I was wondering if you knew if > > there were bsd drivers for my card and where I can > > get them. I've looked several places on the web and > > haven't been able to find any, but maybe I'm > > overlooking something. If you need any more info, > > let me know. Thanks. > > Ian > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. > http://im.yahoo.com/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message