Quoting Jason Andresen <jandrese_at_mitre.org>: > 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. > I just tried it with my machine, and it hung the computer... I have an idea why it might have though, I think I forgot to set up the AGP stuff correctly in the XF86Config. KenReceived on Wed May 05 2004 - 07:16:56 UTC
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