Re: nVidia FX Support?

From: Dimitry Andric <dimitry_at_andric.com>
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 11:28:57 +0200
On 2004-05-05 at 10:26:32 Johan Pettersson wrote:

>> You can use the binary only driver if you have an IA-32 system (ie in
>>  /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver). I have..
>> nvidia0: <GeForce FX Go5200> mem

> That driver hasn't worked for me since 5.1-RELEASE. I have tried various
> ways to get it to work. FreeBSD locks up when starting X.

The problem is that NVidia hasn't updated its binary-only FreeBSD
driver since July 1st, 2003.  Any cards released after this date will
not work properly, or at all, with this driver.  So please go bug
NVidia. :)

But, see also this thread:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-threads/2003-June/000530.html

which might explain why it takes forever for new drivers to arrive. :(

Received on Wed May 05 2004 - 00:29:13 UTC

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