Nvidia 7000m only works with vesa driver.

[eculp]

Quoting Ariff Abdullah <ariff at FreeBSD.org>:

> 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
>
> ... Recording in stereo is obviously too advanced
>     and confusing for us idiot ***** users :P ........
>
Thanks Ariff,

Much nicer and works fine.

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