I took a look a the docs related to their Linux driver. They recommend gettin XFree86 up and running with either the "nv" driver or the standard "vga" driver before trying to install their "nvidia" driver. I'm starting to think that this isn't a driver problem, but something else. :( Thanks, -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
