Whoa! Ok. I posted a question on the FreeBSD-questions mailing list asking if Linux video card drivers could be used on FreeBSD, and I got the answer "Probably not." Well, at least now that I know it's been done (by you), it gives me some more hope. I'm going to read the docs about how to install that linux driver now. Thank you very much, -James Turnbull ----- Original Message ----- From: "Desmond Lee" <desmond60@hotmail.com> To: <newbie@XFree86.Org> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 11:28 AM Subject: Re: Anyone else have any other ideas -- Problems running XFree86 v 4.2.0 on FreeBSD > Hey James > > >Yes. I thought that XFree86 came with the drivers. Is that right? > >Did you have to download a driver seperately from the XFree86 install? > > I'm not too sure about this, cause XFree86 says that it'll support the card, > as long as you use the "nv" driver. I think this may mean you need to get > the driver from the nvidia web site and install it. Just last week i joined > this mailing list because i had an almost similar problem w/ my matrox card. > It said that it'll support matrox millennium g450 w/ the "mga" driver. But i > thought that this would be supported just by installing the latest version > of xfree. Thanks to some help of the guys on this mailing list they told me > that the "mga" driver that the xfree website was referring to needed to be > downloaded off the Matrox website. After downloading and installing the > linux beta driver from the matrox website and running 'XFree86 -configure' > from the /usr/X11R6/bin dir it seemed to generate the config file. That > config file i dumped over to the /etc/X11/ dir and then 'startx' worked. > > Thus, try and download the linux driver for your video card (try the source > tar file at the bottom of the page). Unzip and install it (just follow > instructions on the INSTALL or README file) and see what happens. I'm > thinking your getting all the error from the /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ > because that "nv" driver needs to be downloaded from the nvidia website > (just my opinion, i may be wrong). > > >Thanks man. I really appreciate the help. > > Hey not a problem :) > > Desmond > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Newbie@XFree86.Org > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
