From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 10 19:55:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from IMGate1.cshore.com (smtp.cshore.com [63.237.136.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49D4737B402 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 19:55:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from christabel.starbreaker.net (dialup-uu-dynamic32.cshore.com [63.112.158.32]) by IMGate1.cshore.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 63E7223F71; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 22:57:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 23:05:26 -0500 From: Matthew Graybosch To: Roberto Armenteros Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: does freeBSD 4.4 support Nvidia Geforce 2??? Message-Id: <20020110230526.35bf8fbf.matthew@starbreaker.net> In-Reply-To: <20020110183011.B70804@freebsd.tekrealm.net> References: <20020111022325.10382.qmail@web13601.mail.yahoo.com> <20020110183011.B70804@freebsd.tekrealm.net> Organization: starbreaker.net X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=.9OfPHZ?CL,vLZJ" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=.9OfPHZ?CL,vLZJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 18:30:11 -0800 Andrew Stuart wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 at 18:23:25 -0800, Roberto Armenteros wrote: > > Now, this is my question. I installed freeBSD 4.1 on > > my computer for a test. The network part worked great, > > but when I setup X i could not find my video card > > "Nvidia GeForce 2 GTS" I found other Nvidia cards but > > not mine. I hope support to this card is added in new > > editions "4.4" and thats what I would like to confirm. > > If somebody knows about this, please let me know. > > Also, what X server should I install in order to > > provide support to the NVidia GeForce 2 family. In the > > list provided in the installation program, I could not > > find anything refering to Nvidia. I saw Virge, S3, IBM > > and a many others. Again, this was FreeBSD 4.1. I > > would really appreciate your help... > > > > Roberto Armenteros > > > > Freebsd will support just about any video card, as far as X that > is a different story, which version of X are you using? > > the Geforce 2 is supported in X 4.0.1 and higher, I am not sure > if 3.3.6 supports it or not, but if it does, it will use the nv driver. > edit your XF86Config and look at the Device section. you should have a > line that looks simular to: Driver "nv" > > I hope this helps. I'm using a GeForce2-based card with 4.4-RELEASE and XFree86 4.1.0, a Hercules 3D Prophet II MX. I have 2D acceleration using the XF86 "nv" driver, but not 3D acceleration. -- Matthew Graybosch http://www.starbreaker.net GnuPG Key ID: 0x45BC4581 "Sex, Unix, and rock 'n roll" -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 G! d- s:+ a-- C+++ UB++++ P+ L+++ E W++ N+ o K- w--- O- M-- V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP++ t 5 X R tv-- b++++ DI+++ D+ G++ e* h+ r++ y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ --=.9OfPHZ?CL,vLZJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQE8PmSKXG3c5kW8RYERAsYuAJ9oKEst7qn7LJeGPt1T3kCjL/2uqQCYuna3 s+hU6ZEqaiuhXiujFM3yQQ== =aQP2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=.9OfPHZ?CL,vLZJ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message