On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 02:21:09AM -0700, Dino Vliet wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm having problems with my monitor on freebsd. The vesa driver uses 1024X768 > while the monitor is capable of doing 1680x1050. > > Observed here as well: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nv/+bug/5801 > > Using the nv driver is no option because it freezes my system and I have to > turn the power down to start booting the system again. > > Am I in a problematic situation now because: > > 1) Vesa isn't capable of using higher resolutions? > 2) I can use NV because the driver isn't ok on my amd64 system > 3) Nvidia doesn't provide a FreeBSD version of their nvidia driver on AMD64 > based systems? > > Brgds >
Not an answer you want but.. Try using xf86-video-nv 2.1.2 (as opposed to 1.2.2.1, which is in ports now). All you need to do is change PORTVERSION to 2.1.2 in x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv/Makefile, delete distinfo and `make fetch makesum install'. HTH, Yuri
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