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Date:      Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:53:43 +0100
From:      "Frank Shute" <frank@esperance-linux.co.uk>
To:        Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to downgrade from xorg-7.3 to xorg-7.2 ...
Message-ID:  <20070922175343.GA10176@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <000001c7fd17$270bfa40$6601a8c0@KGISH>
References:  <000001c7fd17$270bfa40$6601a8c0@KGISH>

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On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 02:50:25PM +0200, Kiffin Gish wrote:
>
> Hi there,
> 
> Since I recently upgraded to xorg-7.3, I cannot use my laptop because nvidia
> has not yet provided an upgraded driver. I've tried all the recommended
> workarounds for tweaking the xorg.conf file but to no avail.
> 
> My question then is: how can I safely downgrade back to xorg-7.2?
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance!

Have you tried the nv(4x) driver? Works fine with my nvidia card,
although I believe it hasn't got some of the advanced features of the
proprietary driver.

It's in ports: x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv, if not installed.

-- 

 Frank 

	
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