Nvidia 7000m only works with vesa driver.

Ariff Abdullah ariff at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jan 1 17:53:19 PST 2008


On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:05:30 -0600
eculp <eculp at encontacto.net> wrote:
> On an acer 5520-5679 laptop, Nvidia 7000m only works with the vesa  
> driver.  Is there a way to use an nv driver that should take
> advantage   of the card itself?  I'm running:
>    AMD64 Current from the latest snapshot:
> 
> FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT-200712 #0: Sun Dec 30 11:33:37 CST 2007      
> root at local15.local.net.mx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENCONTACTO  amd64
> 
> The pciconf -lv:
> 
> vgapci0 at pci0:0:18:0:    class=0x030000 card=0x01261025
> chip=0x053310de   rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00
>      vendor     = 'Nvidia Corp'
>      class      = display
>      subclass   = VGA
> 
> 

If you just need 2d acceleration, 1280x800 widescreen resolution, grab
http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/ports/xf86-video-nv/patch-xzz , dump
it into /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv/files/ , recompile /
install xf86-video-nv . 

--
Ariff Abdullah
FreeBSD

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    and confusing for us idiot ***** users :P ........
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