ports/112372: nv xorg driver doesn't recognize Nvidia GeForce Go 6150 (and probably couple more newer cards)

[Piotr Szmytka]

>Number:         112372
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       nv xorg driver doesn't recognize Nvidia GeForce Go 6150 (and probably couple more newer cards)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed May 02 21:30:03 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Piotr Szmytka
>Release:        6.2-STABLE
>Organization:
Warsaw University of Technology
>Environment:
FreeBSD pokrak 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #7: Tue May  1 22:57:25 UTC 2007     root at pokrak:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SZM.64  amd64
>Description:
The Xorg server version 6.9 built from ports (x11-servers/xorg-server) doesn't recognize my video card (Nvidia GeForce Go 6150)
>How-To-Repeat:
purchase Nvidia GeForce Go 6150 based card ;)
install x11-servers/xorg-server
choose 'nv' as display driver in xorg.conf
>Fix:
Apply a patch found in one of linux distros xorg source package. Rebuild xorg-server.
You can find instructions on how to do it here:
http://people.fruitsalad.org/adridg/bobulate/index.php?/archives/320-Thank-you,-openSUSE-from-a-FreeBSD-guy.html

I attached the patch that takes care of my card, but there are few more patches in  OpenSuse's srpm that may fix problems with other cards.
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