Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 22:00:36 +0200 From: Joseph Borg <juu.borg@gmail.com> To: "'Mike Jeays'" <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com>, "'Rod Person'" <personrp@hotpop.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: NVIDIA Driver on 5.4 RC3 Message-ID: <428a4d68.3c0c6800.3f65.ffffc303@mx.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1115755191.86936.19.camel@chaucer>
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Jeays [mailto:Mike.Jeays@rogers.com]
Sent: 10 May 2005 22:00
To: Rod Person
Cc: joeborg@ieee.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: NVIDIA Driver on 5.4 RC3
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 12:37, Rod Person wrote:
> On Tue, 10 May 2005 12:24:30 -0400, Joseph Borg <juu.borg@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I've got an NVIDIA TNT2 and I'm trying to install NVIDIA's driver on the
> > AMD
> > 64 Release of 5.4 RC3. The driver I'm trying to install is:
> > NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-7174.tar.gz.
> >
> > When I try to install it, make stops with an error saying that vm86.h
was
> > not found. Has anyone come across this problem before?
>
> I have the same type of card and use the NVIDIA driver with no problem.
> I'm not sure, but does the driver support AMD 64 cpu??
>
> > Alternatively, does anyone know of another driver I can use with my card
> > that will support 1024x768 at true colour depth?
>
> The Xorg driver 'nv' - I believe it is - should support 1024x768, it just
> doesn't do the 3D acceleration of the Nvidia driver.
Even the VESA driver works at this resolution with the GEFORCE 440 card
- I am not saying the performance is spectacular, but it works fine for
me.
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "vesa"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440]"
ChipSet "vesa"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Thanks Rod and Mike,
The NV driver works just fine in the Xorg conf. Had missed it the first time
round.
Joe
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