-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 5 May 2004 18:58, Dimitry Andric wrote: > > 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. :) I was under the impression the Fx 5200 was newer than that (just) but I'm not sure. At least the Fx 5200 Go works and I'd expect similar vintage cards to work too. > 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. :( Yeah, I believe proper TLS support is being worked on, but I think it's contingent on a new compiler etc.. That said, a new version that only works with libc_r wouldn't go astray :( - -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAmNAl5ZPcIHs/zowRAkndAKCodrLt0s9fESczpq5kkSO9NAv+fgCfcUkX 3tfXQPTeC17nXE8x0QOEfLE= =kh63 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----Received on Wed May 05 2004 - 02:30:14 UTC
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