cvs commit: ports/x11/nvidia-driver Makefile distinfo pkg-plist ports/x11/nvidia-driver/files 6113-patch-lib::Makefile

[Jose Alonso Cardenas Marquez]

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On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 18:55:45 +0000
Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 06:47:16PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > danfe       2007-01-07 18:47:16 UTC
> > 
> >   FreeBSD ports repository
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     x11/nvidia-driver    Makefile distinfo pkg-plist 
> >     x11/nvidia-driver/files 6113-patch-lib::Makefile 
> >   Log:
> >   - Update to version 9746, the latest from nVidia, which adds support for
> >     GeForce 8800 GTS and GeForce 8800 GTX boards [1]
> 
> Sadly, new driver apparently stopped supporting some cards like my good
> old GeForce4 MX 440.  It it, however, supported by 96xx and 7184 legacy
> versions (with 7184 supporting even much older models of GPUs).  I'm now
> not sure if I should still consider 7184 being our "official" legacy
> version (as nVidia webpage states) or move to 9631 (to help us care for
> GF2/3/4 for time being but forget about Riva's and Vanta's).
> 
> Let's see what people would say about this.
> 
> ./danfe

I think that you should include the 96xx/7xxx legacy drivers into the
x11/nvidia-driver port. Also you could add a message to pre-everything
with the url of "Supported NVIDIA Graphics Chips", it would help us to
know what driver supported a determinate GPU.

http://us.download.nvidia.com/freebsd/1.0-9746/README/appendix-a.html

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