video card

RW list-freebsd-2004 at morbius.sent.com
Mon May 16 07:15:31 PDT 2005


On Saturday 14 May 2005 08:56, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 06:27:54PM -0400, crzdgns1 at starpower.net wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > Is there are better driver for my video card than the
> > standard, generic vga0 driver?
> > My video card is a Diamond Viper v550 vidoe card which uses the nVidia
> > Riva TNT chip.  The card uses the AGP interface and has 8 MB of SDRAM.
>
> Yes. Use the "nv" driver. See 'man nv'.
>
I would first try nvidia's own driver,  in the port x11/nvidia-driver 
and then fall back on nv if  the former doesn't work. 


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