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Date:      26 Apr 2002 00:35:59 -0300
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Tuc <tuc@ttsg.com>
Cc:        "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dell 8200 - NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go - XF86
Message-ID:  <1019792159.308.3.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <200204260219.WAA00880@heimdall.ttsg.com>
References:  <200204260219.WAA00880@heimdall.ttsg.com>

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On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 23:19, Tuc wrote:
> > 
> > On Thursday 25 April 2002 10:00 pm, Tuc wrote:
> > | Hi,
> > |
> > | 	Just 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).
> >
> 	No, it wasn't. GeForce2 or GeForce 4.
> > 
> > But I think you can make it work if you cvsup to the latest ports and build 
> > XFree86 4.2 from the ports.
> >
> 	Tried to do that, but it wouldn't build. :(
> > 
> > nvidia is, in general, bad news, and the best advice is to stay away from 
> > them if you can.

> > 
> 	:( I was encouraged seeing the http://nvidia.netexplorer.org pages,
> but I guess didn't pay enough attention.

See if http://www.marcuscom.com/g2g-xfree86/article.html helps.

Joe

> 
> 		Thanks, Tuc/TTSG Internet Services, Inc.
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