Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 15:10:09 +1000 From: "Alastair G. Hogge" <agh@tpg.com.au> To: Dragoncrest <dragoncrest@voyager.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Configuring GeForce FX 5200 in X? Message-ID: <200308231510.09983.agh@tpg.com.au> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030823010417.00a17570@pop.voyager.net> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030823010417.00a17570@pop.voyager.net>
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On Saturday, 23 August 2003 15:07, Dragoncrest wrote: > Hi all. Just got a GeForce4 FX 5200 to install in a new Freebsd box and > I'm trying to configure X to use it, but I don't see the card listed > anywhere in the list of cards on the machine. What do I do in order to > configure the card itself? I'd like to get it installed and running in > there if possible. If it's not one that bsd will use, I'll just swap my > GF3 out of my win box instead, but I'd rather get this going of > possible. Can anyone point me in the direction of how to get this working > or which driver to use? Install /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver and then in your XF86Config swap your video card driver with nvidia. Reboot and hopefully you will have a working FX5200 on FreeBSD :-) HTH -Al
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