Nvidia Driver

Ian Moore no-spam at swiftdsl.com.au
Fri Jul 15 12:46:39 GMT 2005


On Friday 15 July 2005 20:59, Adam Stroud wrote:
>
> On 7/15/05, Ian Moore <no-spam at swiftdsl.com.au> wrote:
> > On Friday 15 July 2005 12:37, Adam Stroud wrote:
> > > All:
> > >
> > > I am having a problem getting my nvidia video card to work since I
> > > portupgraded to the latest nvidia driver in the port.  I had
> > > everything working find using many of the old verions.  Then I
> > > upgraded to the latest version and now when I attempt tp startx, I
> > > get:
> > >

> >
> > What card do you have - nvidia have dropped support for older chipsets -
> > take a look at /usr/ports/UPDATING for details.
> > That might be the cause of your problem.

> I am using the GeForce2 GTS

There's your problem then, it's not supported by the new drivers according to 
the list at http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_18897.html

Look at /usr/ports/UPDATING for instructions on how to keep the older driver 
on your system.

Cheers,
-- 
Ian
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