Re: NVidia Riva TNT2 64 ?

2004-06-23 Thread Vince Hoffman


On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Brian Astill wrote:

 FWIW, I have that card and it seems to work just fine using the nv
 driver.
 When you are given choices in the helper programs for XFree86 setup,
 just choose the nearest descrptor you can find which uses that nv
 driver.

 You could also write that nv manually into your XF86Config file, if
 you prefer.

Also the nvidia-driver from ports works well with it.

---XF86Config snippet---
Section Device

Identifier  Card0
Driver  nvidia
VendorName  nVidia Corporation
BoardName   NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro]
BusID   PCI:1:0:0
EndSection
-- End XF86Config snippet---



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 Regards,
 Brian
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Re: NVidia Riva TNT2 64 ?

2004-06-22 Thread Lucas Holt
I can't comment on the video cards, but the realtek NIC chipset might 
cause you some problems.  I recently had to replace a realtek based NIC 
in a lowend server with a 3com because of oversized packets in the logs 
and the server would halt after about a week up.  If you are using the 
machine casually it should be ok, but if you plan to leave it up I'd 
recommend getting a different NIC.

Sound blaster live cards should work in later 5.x releases.  I know 
5.2.1 suports them.  AMD processors work really well with FreeBSD.

On Jun 22, 2004, at 5:46 PM, hemepar wrote:
Dear Friends : I´m trying to install a 5.0 FreeBSD and, after my tenth 
try... I´m quitting. The XFree86 don´t recognize my video card ! Also, 
after a buggy installer (!) , after choosing KDE at the installation, 
I have to type startx at the terminal (?) and nothing happens or 
worst, I have a wrong message that I don´t have video  ! I tried all 
kind of NVidia Riva, TNT, TNT2, TNT2 Ultra, VGA Generic , with none 
answer ? I'm thinking in download a new version, 5.21, but, I wouldn´t 
like to have this same problem, again ! I'm trying to install on a 
Intel motherboard, P4 1.6 GHz, 128 Mb RAMBUS, 8139 Realtek netwok and 
a 32 Mb NVidia Riva TNT2 64 video card. Also, I would like to know, if 
it´s possible to install on a Athlon 1000 (T-Bird), Soyo K7VTA-B, 256 
Mb RAM,  32 Mb Savage 4 video card, Sound Blaster Live sound card and 
a Realtek 8139 network , that I have at home. Yours truly, Newton 
Nickel - Curitiba - PR - Brazil
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Re: NVidia Riva TNT2 64 ?

2004-06-22 Thread Brian Astill
FWIW, I have that card and it seems to work just fine using the nv 
driver.
When you are given choices in the helper programs for XFree86 setup, 
just choose the nearest descrptor you can find which uses that nv 
driver.

You could also write that nv manually into your XF86Config file, if 
you prefer.


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Regards,
Brian
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Re: NVidia Riva TNT2 64 ?

2004-06-22 Thread Leela
hemepar wrote:
I'm trying to install on a Intel
motherboard, P4 1.6 GHz, 128 Mb RAMBUS, 8139 Realtek netwok and a
32 Mb NVidia Riva TNT2 64 video card.
As Brian noted, a TNT2 works great with the nv driver, although you
may also have to adjust your Monitor and Screen sections of your
XFree86 config file to work with your monitor.
A reference I found very useful in understanding XFree86
configurations was The Complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey, Chapter 28.
Also the handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html
Here are the relevant portions of my XFree86 config file for my system
with the TNT2 card (note: your BusID is probably different):
more /etc/X11/XF86Config
Section ServerLayout
   Identifier XFree86 Configured
   Screen  0  Screen0 0 0
   InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer
   InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard
EndSection
[snip]
Section Monitor
   #DisplaySize  370   270 # mm
   Identifier   Monitor0
   VendorName   DEL
   ModelNameDELL P991
   Option  DPMS
EndSection
Section Device
   ### Available Driver options are:-
   ### Values: i: integer, f: float, bool: True/False,
   ### string: String, freq: f Hz/kHz/MHz
   ### [arg]: arg optional
   #Option SWcursor  # [bool]
   #Option HWcursor  # [bool]
   #Option NoAccel   # [bool]
   #Option ShowCache # [bool]
   #Option ShadowFB  # [bool]
   #Option UseFBDev  # [bool]
   #Option Rotate# [str]
   #Option VideoKey  # i
   #Option FlatPanel # [bool]
   #Option FPDither  # [bool]
   #Option CrtcNumber# i
   Identifier  Card0
   Driver  nv
   VendorName  nVidia Corporation
   BoardName   NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro]
   BusID   PCI:1:9:0
EndSection
Section Screen
   Identifier Screen0
   Device Card0
   MonitorMonitor0
   DefaultDepth24
   SubSection Display
   Depth 24
   Modes 1600x1200 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600
   EndSubSection
EndSection
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