Re: nVidia FX Support?

Dimitry Andric wrote:

> 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. :)

I have a GeForce FX 5900 that works with the latest Nvidia binary only 
module.  The probe complains that it doens't know the card, but it still 
manages to make it work anyway.

nvidia0: <Unknown> mem 0xd0000000-0xd7ffffff,0xdb000000-0xdbffffff irq 
11 at device 0.0 on pci3

According to XFree's log, it even manages to use the AGP and bumps the 
speed up to 8x.

(II) NVIDIA(0): AGP 8X successfully initialized

X doesn't know exactly what kind of chip it is, but seems able to 
autodetect all of the interesting features anyway.


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