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Date:      Tue, 05 Nov 2002 16:34:40 -0600
From:      Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
To:        Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "FreeBSD as a Desktop" heh, heh....
Message-ID:  <3DC84780.8060002@centtech.com>
References:  <20021104101519.I57495-100000@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us>

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Chris Dillon wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Eric Anderson wrote:
> 
> 
>>Chris Dillon wrote:
>>
>>>The newest NVidia cards work fine with FreeBSD's XFree86 port.  I
>>>created a patchset for XFree86 that added support for the newest cards
>>>to the nv driver which was added to the XFree86 port on August 5.
>>>You have to either build XFree86 from the ports, or use
>>>FreeBSD.org-built binaries made after that date.  The
>>>XFree86.org-built binaries will not have any improvements incorporated
>>>in them after the day that particular version of XFree86 was released.
>>
>>I'm running 4.7-RELEASE, shouldn't that be new enough?
> 
> 
> I would think so.  I see the patches in the port, I hope they actually
> get put into the binary packages.  Do you have a particular card that
> isn't working?  If so, paste the relevant portion of pciconf -l -v
> output.

On my notebook:
none1@pci1:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x00e41028 chip=0x011210de rev=0xb2 
hdr=0x00
     vendor   = 'Nvidia Corporation'
     device   = 'GeForce2 MX Ultra [NV11]'
     class    = display
     subclass = VGA

and on my desktop:
none1@pci1:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x87831462 chip=0x017210de rev=0xa3 
hdr=0x00
     vendor   = 'Nvidia Corporation'
     device   = 'GeForce4 MX 420 [NV17.3]'
     class    = display
     subclass = VGA

Eric




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