From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 6 5:49:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C659137B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 05:49:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [207.200.51.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DB3843E42 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 05:49:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gA6DnBs27061; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 07:49:11 -0600 (CST) Received: (from root@localhost) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id gA6DnBU07981; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 07:49:11 -0600 (CST) Received: from centtech.com (electron [204.177.173.173]) by -i (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gA6Dn7u07974; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 07:49:07 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3DC91DCB.80905@centtech.com> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 07:48:59 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Dillon Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "FreeBSD as a Desktop" heh, heh.... References: <20021105172803.H5190-100000@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Chris Dillon wrote: [snip] >>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 > > > I didn't add that PCI ID for some reason. I'm not sure what it would > take to get that one to work but it might be just as easy as the rest. Ok - it should work if the others work.. It would be awesome if it "just worked" like the rest of FreeBSD.. :) >>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 > > > This one is in there. If the card is not being detected at all and > the nv driver isn't even trying to drive it, then the patch is not > present for some reason. Try compiling XFree86-4 totally from a > recent ports collection. If it IS being attached to the nv driver > when you run XFree86 and it just doesn't work, then there is another > problem. It must be something else then, because XFree86 DID detect it and use the nv driver. It just never actually worked.. I did the standard --configure thing that has been working for me for other cards.. Any ideas? I'm sure I'm not the only one hitting this.. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Beware the fury of a patient man. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message