Xorg and nVidia GeForce 8200 (MCP78S) - a better driver than vesa?

Robert Noland rnoland at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jan 3 16:52:40 UTC 2009


On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 13:53 +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:26:17 +0300
> Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > You could try adding PCI id of your 8200 gfx card to src/nv_driver.c
> > in xf86-video-nv sources.
> 
> Ok, I'll search and see if I can find anything relevant.
> I wish therer was another driver I could try, but even the noveau[2]
> driver doesn't support the GeForce 8200 yet.
> 
> It is a bit frustrating that all these "releases" (of code, docs and
> whatnot) from nVidia hasn't made things better for endusers (yet). Oh
> well, that is just the way it is.

Nvidia has not released code or docs.  Only, Intel, AMD/ATI, and VIA
have done so.

robert.

> > And, according to the author of nv driver, it doesn't support Xv
> > extension on all G8x GPUs. [1]
> > 
> > [1] http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11586#c2
> 
> Hmm, I wonder if it is supported in the GeForce 8200 then?
> 
> References:
> 2) http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/
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