Any clues on nVidia GeForce 6100?

Hans Nieser h.nieser at xs4all.nl
Wed Dec 6 03:20:50 PST 2006


Fred Cox wrote:
> I haven't been able to get my new work computer
> (Gateway GT5228) to recognize the builtin graphics. 
> I'm using FreeBSD 6.2-RC1, mostly due to the fact that
> the ethernet wasn't recognized by 6.1.
> 
> The nv driver mentions many similar sounding chipsets,
> but not 6100.
> 
> Thanks for any clues,

I'm not sure why nv would not recognise that, but the 'nvidia' driver 
(/usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver) might also be worth a try if you have no 
objections to closed source drivers, that is. Else I suppose you could try 
the 'vesa' driver but it has limited functionality/performance.


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