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Date:      Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:45:34 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        taproot420 <taproot420@myrealbox.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Questions before installing 4.6.2
Message-ID:  <20020923094534.GD4587@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
In-Reply-To: <1512145715.20020922162517@myrealbox.com>
References:  <1512145715.20020922162517@myrealbox.com>

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On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 04:25:17PM -0500, taproot420 wrote:

>   2. My machine (amd athlon 1800+ ,256 ddr ram) also has the Geforce 4
>   video card with dvi output as i use a lcd monior. Is this card
>   supported by the XFree86 sever present in the current release, is it
>   possible to use it at all in case the latter answer is no...and if
>   somehow i can get this card working can i use the DVI output for my
>   lcd and if so what config do i need to add to the xfree86.config to
>   use this DVI port?

You might find this site illuminating:

http://nvidia.netexplorer.org/index.html

Generally NVidia cards are supported and work well for 2D stuff, but
3D acceleration is another matter ---
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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