Subject: Re: NetBSD 2.0.2 and nVidia and S3 support
To: Robert Cates <robert@kormar.net>
From: Ian Zagorskih <ianzag@megasignal.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/23/2005 17:39:36
On Thursday 23 June 2005 17:33, Robert Cates wrote:
> does NetBSD 2.0.2, which I believe installs with XFree86 4.4.0, have
> support for the nVidia family of chipsets, like nForce2 IGP, GeForce4 MX,
> etc., or the S3 Graphics UniChrome chips?
I'm running NetBSD/i386 2.x and 3.x (-current) on NVidia GeForce4 MX440 AGP
64Mb just fine without any probles. Of course, if you need accelerated 3d it
is not supported yet. But for desktop it's ok.
> I've Googled, but only found info from 2003 when work was being
> done/started to provide nVidia support. I found nothing on the XFree86.org
> web site.
http://www.xfree86.org/4.4.0/nv.4.html
http://www.xfree86.org/4.5.0/nv.4.html
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