From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Apr 25 19:14:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.yumyumyum.org (dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.171.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A786E37B400 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 19:14:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 48107 invoked from network); 26 Apr 2002 02:13:36 -0000 Received: from ken.yumyumyum.org (192.168.0.2) by router.yumyumyum.org with SMTP; 26 Apr 2002 02:13:36 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Kenneth Culver To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" Subject: Re: Dell 8200 - NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go - XF86 Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 22:14:33 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] References: <200204260200.WAA00709@heimdall.ttsg.com> <20020426020722.36BAABB29@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20020426020722.36BAABB29@i8k.babbleon.org> Cc: tuc@ttsg.com, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200204252214.33906.culverk@yumyumyum.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday 25 April 2002 10:07 pm, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: > On Thursday 25 April 2002 10:00 pm, Tuc wrote: > | Hi, > | > | =09Just bought a Dell 8200 with : > | > | NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go video controller with 64 MB of DDR RAM > > That's unfortunate; it would have been better to get an ATI chip (which > were available upon request for the 7500, 8000, and 8100, at least, so > probably for the 8200 though I don't know for sure). > > But I think you can make it work if you cvsup to the latest ports and b= uild > XFree86 4.2 from the ports. > > nvidia is, in general, bad news, and the best advice is to stay away fr= om > them if you can. I'd have to disagree, there's nothing faster right now, and pretty soon,=20 they'll have fully supported FreeBSD drivers, as well as the current linu= x=20 drivers... Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message